Campanelli v. Regents of University of California

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• holding that statement need not be literally true “so long as the imputation is substantially true so as to justify the ‘gist or sting’ of the remark”
• “Even if they are objectively unjustified or made in bad faith, publications which are statements of opinion rather than fact cannot form the basis for a libel action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).