Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Defamation Lawsuit Against HuffPost by Kavanaugh’s Former Classmate

The Third Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by a former classmate of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh against The Huffington Post. The appellate court ruled that the suit was time-barred regardless of which state’s law was applied to the case. The plaintiff’s bid to revive the case was thereby thwarted, reaffirming the lower court’s stance on the statute of limitations, according to a report by Law360.