A biochemist cannot sustain her defamation claims against a former colleague who worked in the scientific community to discredit her research, a federal judge has determined.
By “interjecting herself” into a public dispute, Meena Chandok is considered a “limited public figure” who bore the burden of demonstrating that her one-time colleague, Daniel F. Klessig, defamed her by acting with falsity, actual malice and “some degree of fault” when calling into question her research, which purported to demonstrate a breakthrough in plant biology with implications for human disease resistance, said District Judge Joseph M. Hood.
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