The North Carolina Court of Appeals has dismissed an appeal by five Greensboro police officers in their defamation case against The Game.

Five police officers involved in the 2005 arrest of the rapper  filed a defamation suit in 2006 in which they claimed they were libeled and slandered and had their images misappropriated by the rapper and several of his business associates.

The officers had asked the appeals court to review portions of their case that had been dismissed in August 2008 by Judge Richard Stone in Guilford County Superior Court, claiming that the dismissals could cause inconsistent verdicts.

“Although the facts involved in the claims remaining before the trial court may overlap with the facts involved in the claims that have been dismissed, plaintiffs have failed to show that they will be prejudiced by the possibility of inconsistent verdicts in two separate proceedings,” the appeals court ruled today. “Accordingly, plaintiffs have failed to establish that a substantial right will be lost unless the trial court’s order is immediately reviewed.”

The officers — Hien Nguyen, Matthew Brown, Ryan Childrey, Romaine Watkins and David Gregory — were involved in arresting The Game at Four Seasons Town Centre a few hours before he was to perform at a concert in Winston-Salem. Mall security had asked Taylor and his e ntourage to leave the mall for videotaping and creating a disturbance. The off-duty police officers were called in to help.

The officers sued after Game posted a video on YouTube and because of his characterization of the arrest in the marketing of his DVD Stop Snitching/Stop Lying.