A legal scholar will not have to face defamation claims for writing and speaking about a Wall Street manager who was being sued for allegedly calling an employee a “homo” for being a vegetarian, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled.
The manager, Robert Catalanello, had argued that Zachary Kramer, a professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, had written an article and given a lecture suggesting that allegations against Catalanello were proven facts, even though the employee’s sex discrimination lawsuit was pending.
