A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Layton and two police officers that alleged defamation after the officers falsely accused an 18-year-old Subway employee of spiking lemonade.
The defendants — Layton and two police officers — filed a motion to dismissed the suit after U.S. District Judge Dee Benson heard arguments on the case March 7.
On Thursday, Benson granted the request, writing that the owners of the Subway shop didn’t sufficiently prove that their constitutional rights had been violated.
The officers, who reported the story of the alleged drink-spiking to news outlets, didn’t imply that the Subway shop was negligent or participated in what they believed was drug-spiking, according to Benson.