Bustos v. a & E TELEVISION NETWORKS

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that Colorado law does not recognize the incremental harm doctrine
• “We must ... compare [the broadcast’s] statement against the truth of the matter.”
• “But to concede that a statement is defamatory is just to say it hurts. It says nothing about the truth of the matter.”
• “Where truth was once strictly a defense, now the plaintiff must shoulder the burden in his case-in-chief of proving the falsity of a challenged statement if he is a public figure or the statement involves a matter of public concern.”
• suggesting Colorado law does not recognize the incremental harm doctrine
• statement that plaintiff was a “member” of the Aryan Brotherhood was not materially false even though he was not a member, because he conspired with and aided and abetted the Aryan Brotherhood, and no “juror could find the difference to be a material one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).