O’Melveny & Myers lawyers appeared close to persuading an appeals panel to declare unconstitutional a North Carolina criminal defamation law that applies solely to political candidates Tuesday morning. 

“The interest of the state and the United States in campaigns that are free from derogatory and false campaign speech is apparent, but the necessity of a criminal statute to enforce that is not,” said O’Melveny partner Michael R. Dreeben, before a three-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit panel. 

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