Defamed librarian vindicated

NEW ORLEANS — An appeals court in Louisiana reversed the trial court’s judgment in favor of the director of a conservative think-tank and a cartoonist, which were sued by a nationally honored public school librarian for defamation. The “factual connotation” in their public comments was defamatory and false. “At the very least” their accusations that the librarian was “instructing children on how to perform sex acts and advocating teaching anal sex to 11-year-olds indicate a reckless disregard of the truth.”