9th Circuit Says Defamation Suit Can Proceed Against Seattle City Council Member

“At most, however, the district court has identified one reasonable interpretation of Sawant’s words, not the only reasonable interpretation,” Ninth Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima wrote in the opinion. “Where a communication is capable of two meanings, one defamatory and one not, it is for a jury, not a judge, to determine which meaning controls.”

       
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