An interesting false light lawsuit filed today, Walter v. Herbert (M.D. Pa.), over New York magazine's "The Case of the Fake Sherlock" article (see pp. 11-19 of this PDF for a paywall-free version). The article had been introduced by the magazine with,
Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud. How did he get away with it for so long?
Walter attaches to his Complaint an American Association for Forensic Science Ethics Committee report that is introduced with this cover letter (of course, the "complaint" in that letter refers to the complaint against Walter submitted to the AAFS, not the Complaint in Walter's newly filed case):
