Judge Rules To Strike Complaint In Defamation Suit Against ProPublica, New York Times Magazine

A ruling by a federal judge is likely to result in the dismissal of a libel lawsuit filed against ProPublica and The New York Times. The suit was filed in October of last year by Dr. William Armington, a physician mentioned in an article written by ProPublica‘s Sheri Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine. The article, titled “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” detailed how medical staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans had deliberately administered lethal doses of drugs to critically ill patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

After dissecting the article, the judge determined that it did not specifically call out Dr.

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