Cottrell v. NAT. COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASS'N

How courts have described this case

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• infamy involves “conviction of an infamous crime and the consequent loss of honor and credit”; “[m]oral turpitude signifies an inherent quality of baseness, vileness, depravity”
• “[T]he failure to investigate does not constitute malice, unless the failure evidences purposeful avoidance, that is, an intent to avoid the truth.”
• “Because [the challenged statement] involved a matter of public concern, [the plaintiff] must present clear and convincing evidence of actual malice to satisfy his burden of proof for his defamation claim based on that statement to be submitted to the jury.”
• discussing heightened standard for slander per se

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).