Barry v. Time, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the neutral reportage privilege does not depend solely upon the ‘trustworthiness’ of the individual or the organization making the allegedly defamatory statements
• noting that the difference between the actual malice standard and neutral reporting privilege is that the privilege applies regardless of the defendant’s state of mind
• “[I]f is the neutrality of the report which is critical.”
• university basketball coach at least a limited purpose public figure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).