Defamation case against Murphy by fired N.J. health official can proceed, judge rules

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Defamation case against Murphy by fired N.J. health official can proceed, judge rules
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Court rejects arguments that the claim was without merit because it had failed to show “actual malice” by the governor.

as well following his removal, after Murphy made reference during a press briefing to allegations in media reports that the former assistant commissioner also had a side consulting job that he had not informed anyone about.

Questions over his firing grew following a subsequent story by NJ Advance Media, which obtained secretly recorded conversations with Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, who said that Neuwirth was actually let go because the governor’s administration had become convincedabout the state’s response to the coronavirus. On the recording, she said administration officials told her: “All things point to Chris. He has to go.

Neuwirth’s attorney, Christopher Eibeler of Smith Eibeler, subsequently filed a subpoena for the OPIA records, which the Attorney General’s office has sought to quash.

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