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· 2/28/1986

Burgess v. Reformer Publishing Corp.

Citations

  • 508 A.2d 1359
  • 146 Vt. 612
  • 12 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1856
  • 1986 Vt. LEXIS 339

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[W]e cannot subscribe to the theory that a newspaper is entitled to a summary judgment where it prints a nonlibelous article under a libelous headline.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • headline \Grand Jury Probes Embezzlement: Burgess denies getting funds\ failed the fair index test because it conveyed the false impression that Burgess was being investigated by a grand jury when in fact he was only a witness
  • “The test is a stringent one.”
  • \The test is a stringent one.\

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Judges: Hill, Peck, Hayes, Barney, Keyser

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