Cangelosi v. SCHWEGMANN BROS., ETC.

How courts have described this case

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

• “To maintain an action in defamation, the following elements must be shown: (1) defamatory words; (2) publication; (3) falsity; (4) malice, actual or implied; and (5) resulting injury.”
• “[W]ords which impute a crime to another are defamatory per se[.]”
• which also considers falsity as a fifth and separate element
• tort of defamation requires falsity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).