Clark v. Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “defendant’s words or acts before, at, or after the time of the communication” may prove actual malice
• explaining that “defendant’s words or acts before, at, or after the time of the communication” may prove actual malice
• declining to apply the “sham exception” doctrine of Noerr-Pennington and stating that it has no application to defamatory statements made by a person exercising their right to petition
• jury awarded $100,000 in exemplary damages each against two defendants for libel per se
• jury awarded $100,000 in exemplary damages each against two defendants for libel per se
• jury awarded $100,000 in exemplary damages each against two defendants for libel per se

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).