LOHIER, Circuit Judge: In this appeal from a dismissal of a defamation suit, we address whether Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires a limited-purpose public figure to plead in a plausible way that defendants acted with actual malice. We conclude that. it does. We therefore affirm the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Oetken, J.) dismissing plainti…
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