Former tennis star James Blake saw defamation claims brought against him by the New York City police officer caught on video tackling him outside of a midtown Manhattan hotel largely dismissed by a federal judge late Tuesday.

Blake, along with the city and the police department, as well as the police oversight Civilian Complaint Review Board, faced civil claims over the release of information and public statements about Officer James Frascatore, whose September 2015 takedown of Blake in a case of mistaken identity resulted in, as Judge Gregory Woods of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York noted, Frascatore being “lambasted” in the press.

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