Barnes-Hind, Inc. v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that statements that did not impute to the business owner, in connection with the sale of goods, fraud, dishonesty, or questionable business methods were not libel per se
• requiring a plaintiff “specially [to] plead and prove those 12 facts” to give the reader special knowledge of the circumstances
• “Perhaps the clearest example of libel per se is an accusation of crime.”
• “Perhaps the clearest example of libel per se is an accusation of crime.”
• “Perhaps the clearest example of [defamation] per se is an accusation of a crime.”
• “A corporation can be libeled by statements which injure its business reputation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).