Charles Woods v. Evansville Press Company, Inc., the E.W. Scripps Company

How courts have described this case

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• “State ments of opinion, no matter how pernicious, are absolutely privileged under the first amendment.”
• “A publisher reporting on matters of general or public interest cannot be charged with the intolerable burden of guessing what inferences a jury might draw from an article and ruling out all possible false and defamatory innuendoes that could be drawn from the article.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).