A federal judge on Monday dismissed a libel suit over an allegation of an extramarital affair in a book about the Vidocq Society, a band of elite investigators who crack unsolved crimes.
U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman said the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that publisher Penguin and author Michael Capuzzo were negligent in fact-checking the vignette in the 2010 book, The Murder Room.
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