Brodsky v. Journal Publishing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “It must appear that the alleged defamatory language refers to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that person must be the plaintiff.”
• “We recognize that an action may be maintained where the defamed person is not named, but is sufficiently identified by reference in the article to facts and circumstances from which others may understand that such person is referred to.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).