Fourth Circuit· 5/19/1993

Chapin v. Knight-Ridder, Inc.

Citations

993 F.2d 1087
1993 WL 165299

How courts have described this case

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

recognizing that a “defamatory implication must be present in the plain and natural meaning of the words used”
deciding that the phrase \hefty mark-ups\ was an expression of an opinion
explaining that, on a motion to dismiss in a Virginia libel action, a court must “credit the plaintiff’s allegation of the factual falsity of a statement”
stating that when “the bases for the ... conclusion are fully disclosed, no reasonable reader would consider the term anything but the opinion of the author drawn from the circumstances related”
“Notwithstanding the non-actionability, in isolation, of the various statements we discussed [earlier in the opinion], we would err if we did not consider the article as a whole.”
finding a question can be defamatory if it can “be reasonably read as an assertion of a false fact.”

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Judges: Hall, Russell, Widener

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