Broussard v. Family Dollar Store

How courts have described this case

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• affirming trial court’s granting summary judg- ment in favor of defendant on libel count because trial court correctly concluded that defendant’s alleged libel- ous statements were substantially true
• \A publisher cannot be responsible for every strained interpretation that a plaintiff might attribute to its words.\
• ‘‘[t]he issue is whether the libel, as published, would have a different effect on the reader than the pleaded truth would have produced’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The media would be unduly burdened if, in addition to reporting facts about public officers and public affairs correctly, it had to be vigilant for any possibly defamatory implication arising from the report of those true facts.”
• ‘‘[when] the main charge, or gist, of the [article] is true, minor errors that do not change a reader’s perception of the statement do not make the statement actionable’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Truth is an absolute defense to an allegation of libel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).