Cecil v. Southern Express Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee statements like “CVS will not fill Dr. Goulmamine's prescriptions” were not actionable because they were truthful and non-defamatory
• holding that a court may reach the merits of an affirmative defense at the motion to dismiss stage when \all facts necessary to the affirmative defense clearly appear on the face of the complaint\
• addressing defamation claim by a doctor against a pharmacy after the pharmacy declined to continue filling prescriptions for the doctor because it determined that the doctor overprescribed pain medication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).