( February 7, 2025, 2:47 PM EST) -- PORTLAND, Maine — A Maine federal judge on Feb. 6 denied a motion to dismiss filed by a nonprofit organization that publishes sustainability ratings for seafood, including lobster, in a suit accusing it of defamation related to its assigning a negative environmentally sustainability rating for Maine lobster, finding that the complaint alleges sufficient facts to “survive” the dismissal motion as to Maine’s anti-SLAPP statute and sufficiently asserts that the nonprofit acted negligently in publishing information about the rating....