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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Tenney finds that the district court properly ruled in favor of the Utah Jazz and visiting player Russell Westbrook on defamation and emotional distress claims made by two Jazz fans. Westbrook's after-game comments that he believed one of the fans said something racist to him cannot be considered defamatory because it was a constitutionally protected statement of opinion that cannot be proven true or false. Affirmed.
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