Anaya v. CBS BROADCASTING INC.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiff only became a public figure after employing “the weapons of the media” in a sustained media effort
• “The mere existence of a scintilla of evidence will not avoid summary judgment.”
• “The mere existence of a scintilla of evidence will not avoid summary judgment.”
• plaintiff was not limited-purpose public figure during period that CBS television network ran three news broadcasts in which she or the underlying controversy were mentioned, as she did not “thrust herself to the forefront of the public controversy” during this time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).