Cochran v. NYP Holdings, Inc.

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• holding that a statement that suggested that defense attorney Johnnie Cochran lied and exhibited unethical conduct was not actionable as a matter of law because the statement appeared in an opinion column and the author used “loose, figurative, and hyperbolic” speech throughout the column
• holding that a statement that suggested that defense attorney Johnnie Cochran lied and exhibited unethical conduct was not actionable as a matter of law because the statement appeared in an opinion column and the author used “loose, figurative, and hyperbolic” speech throughout the column
• holding statements that lawyer's trial strategy was to \get off\ a clearly guilty defendant, even at the expense of the truth, was protected speech because the comments were not susceptible of being proven true or false
• holding statements that lawyer’s trial strategy was to “get off” a clearly guilty defendant, even at the expense of the truth, was protected speech because the comments were not susceptible of being proven true or false
• noting that “the threshold question is whether a reasonable fact finder could conclude that the statement is sufficiently factual to be susceptible of being proved true or false”
• asking whether there is any “core of objective evidence upon 6 which this Court could verify the allegation”

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