SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a libel lawsuit brought by former North Bronx congressional candidate Herbert Moreira-Brown, who was previously accused of rape when a reporter wrote an article about the lawsuit that was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The article did not amount to defamation because the newspaper accurately reported the allegations, and Morreira-Brown could not show falsity.
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