Brown v. Kelly Broadcasting Co.

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply statutory version of the privilege to press publications
• distinguishing between 23 compensatory damages, presumed damages, and punitive damages in libel actions
• “[W]hen the Legislature has carefully employed a term in one place and has excluded it in another, it should not be implied where excluded.”
• “We see no reason to deny California citizens protection for their reputations equal to that provided in other states. We decline to diverge from the near unanimous authority that a private person need prove only negligence (rather than malice) to recover for defamation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).