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· 10/18/1937

Anderson v. Atherton

Citations

  • 302 U.S. 643
  • 58 S. Ct. 53
  • 82 L. Ed. 500
  • 1937 U.S. LEXIS 1219

How courts have described this case

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  • actual pursuit and public surveillance of a person and his home are actionable as being defamatory
  • closely following a person in order to prevent him from leaving town is within purview of statute

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