Mealey's (October 11, 2022, 3:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A petition for certiorari by a manufacturer that complained about the creation of “a new privilege to defame someone with impunity” will go unaddressed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which denied the petition in its Oct. 11 order list, not swayed by the petitioner’s contention that defamation plaintiffs deserve the opportunity to conduct discovery to establish “actual malice” by a defendant....