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· 6/26/2006

Bellemeade, LLC v. Stoker

Citations

  • 631 S.E.2d 693
  • 280 Ga. 635
  • 2006 Fulton County D. Rep. 1945
  • 2006 Ga. LEXIS 445

How courts have described this case

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  • “[T]he negative inference a hearer might take from the words does not subject the speaker to liability for slander per se.”
  • shareholder could maintain a direct action against the only other two members of corporation
  • “[A] statement of ‘opinion’ is actionable as defamatory if it can reasonably be interpreted as stating or implying defamatory facts about the plaintiff and, if so, if the defamatory assertions are capable of being proved false.”
  • defining \slander per se\ under Georgia law

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Judges: Benham

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