Agnant v. Shakur

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “general allegation” of inability to find employment and damage to reputation did “not satisfy the requirement [to] plead[] special damages”
• holding that allegation that “plaintiff has been unable to find employment commensurate with his training and experience, and has had his reputation destroyed in the community” is a “general allegation” that “does not satisfy the requirement [to] plead[] special damages”
• rejecting defamation claim based upon lyric referring to plaintiff as “a snitch named Haitian Jack”; “those who would think ill of one who legitimately cooperates with law enforcement officials” are not “right-thinking persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).