Appleby v. Daily Hampshire Gazette

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding the trial court’s ruling that republications are not negligent unless the original publication “appears, on its face, to be inherently improbable”
• rejecting the idea that a re-publisher has the independent duty to verify statements
• “[S]ummary judgment is rarely appropriate with respect to the merits of a negligence case”
• “as far as a newspaper’s negligence with respect to the truth of a statement is concerned, there is no difference between reprinting a wire service story verbatim, and accurately restating its contents”
• verification would force smaller publishers to cover only purely local events
• discussing the “negligence standard” adopted in Stone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).