A federal ruling in a defamation case alleging a news station slandered a man by calling him a stalker, when he was never charged with that crime, is the latest addition to Connecticut’s First Amendment case law.

U.S. District Chief Judge Stefan Underhill of the District of Connecticut on Thursday dismissed a slander and libel lawsuit against a Connecticut television station, which used “stalker” and “stalking” with regard to a Westport man accused of second-degree breach of peace for following a woman in a store and into a parking lot.

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