( June 1, 2026, 2:09 PM EDT) -- FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on May 29 dismissed with prejudice a defamation lawsuit brought by the owner of a chain of e-cigarette stores in Florida against the company that owns the New York Post and a journalist who wrote an article about him, finding that the plaintiff engaged in “bad-faith tactics” by amending his complaint to avoid the “actual malice” standard for defamation against public figures rather than addressing the court’s prior findings....