Successful Motion to Dismiss for MLB Players

In a libel case for false claims concerning illegal doping, successfully opposed motion to dismiss libel claim grounded in the actual malice standard in favor of MLB players Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman against media entity Al Jazeera America LLC (decision by Ketanji Brown Jackson, then U.S. District Judge for D.C. District Court).

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