Brueggemeyer v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The summary judgment evidence reflects that there was a public controversy concerning the bulk meat and freezer beef retail sales industry, in general, and [the plaintiff], in particular, prior to [the allegedly defamatory] broadcast .... ”
• trial court properly concluded Brueggemeyer was a public figure even if he did not, of his own volition, undertake to become one, because he voluntarily engaged in a course that was bound to invite attention and comment
• ongoing alleged “bait and switch” sales practices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).