The Commonwealth Court has declined to revive a defamation suit that an ex-transit police officer, fired after getting into an altercation with a woman at a Dunkin’ Donuts, brought against his former employer over a bulletin that alleged the man had impersonated a police officer and pointed a loaded gun at a pedestrian.
A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court ruled Wednesday to deny plaintiff Douglas Ioven’s attempts to overturn a decision by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas that last year dismissed his case against Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and police chief Thomas Nestel. The opinion in Ioven v. Nestel was issued as precedential.
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