Barry M. Goldwater v. Ralph Ginzburg, Warren Boroson, and Factmagazine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• discussing constitutional “actual malice” standard for defamation claims brought by “public figure” plaintiffs
• The defendant wrote that presidential candidate was mentally ill with knowledge that the statement was false.
• New York Times established clear and convincing evidence as the burden of proof necessary only for actual malice, without expressly altering the burden of proof of other elements of libel, including falsity
• “There is no doubt that evidence of negligence, of motive and of intent may be adduced for the purpose of establishing, by cumulation and by appropriate inferences, the fact of a defendant’s recklessness or of his knowledge of falsity.”
• “There is no doubt that evidence of negligence, of motive and of intent may be adduced for the purpose of establishing, by cumulation and by appropriate inferences, the fact of a defendant's recklessness or of his knowledge of falsity.”
• suggesting a preponderance of the evidence standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).