Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation v. Walter Jacobson and Cbs, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “Illinois law is in disarray on the question whether actual malice defeats the privilege of fair summary”
• holding that the fair report privilege does not apply to a reporter’s summary of a government report where the summary unfairly portrayed the gist of the report in a way that a jury could “conclude that the summary carried a greater sting and was therefore unfair”
• stating that \Illinois law is in disarray on the question whether actual malice defeats the privilege of fair summary\
• requiring district court to allow cigarette company claiming defamation to amend complaint to state special damages specifically
• “The statement may have prejudiced the plaintiff in its business but the likely prejudice was too slight to dispense with proof of special damage.”
• \Illinois law is in disarray on the question whether actual malice defeats the privilege of fair summary\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).