The volunteer president of a fraternity house corporation is protected by the federal Volunteer Protection Act from a claim of defamation, a state appellate court in Indiana has held. It has affirmed a decision of a trial court dismissing the claim against the officer who was trying to mediate a dispute between two student members at Valparaiso University. One of the students was injured in a fight after both had been drinking at the fraternity late at night and filed a police report the day after the incident. The alumni president of the house corporation that owned the fraternity property sought to mediate the situation to avoid adverse publicity and damage to the fraternity’s reputation...