Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery and his wife and aide, Lise Rapaport, have laid out their defamation and related claims against The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and certain owners and editorial staff in a 60-page complaint filed late Tuesday.
McCaffery and Rapaport said the papers’ publication of articles and a cartoon related to referral fees Rapaport accepted from law firms, some of which went before McCaffery in 11 unrelated cases, were “false, deliberately misleading, and disgracefully inaccurate as a result of the Inquirer defendants’ calculated and pre-meditated incompleteness and intentionally malicious slant,” according to the complaint in Rapaport v. Intertrust GCN.
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