Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery and his wife and chief judicial aide, Lise Rapaport, have filed a motion for a mandatory injunction seeking to prohibit Philadelphia’s two major daily newspapers from publishing any personal information about the couple.

The filing was made as part of the couple’s defamation and false-light lawsuit against The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, Rapaport v. Interstate General Media, filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. That suit raises claims that the newspapers portrayed McCaffery and Rapaport in a false light through articles about referral fees Rapaport received from law firms that had cases before the state Supreme Court.

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