The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a defamation suit against the New York Post and its reporter who covered the headline-making divorce trial of former Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo associate Anthony Zappin.

One of a number of federal lawsuits brought by Zappin in the wake of his well-publicized divorce proceedings against former Weil, Gotshal & Manges associate Claire Comfort, the suit claimed Post reporter Julia Marsh’s published accounts of the November 2015 matrimonial proceedings were false and defamatory.