David Price v. Viking Penguin, Inc. And Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Alfred Kazin and Susan Sontag, Amicus Curiae

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• holding that if the particular accusation is reported disinterestedly and dispassionately, the neutral reporting privilege would apply even if the report was one-sided
• given the arrangement and non-specificity of statements, it was “not clear whether local people suspected [the plaintiff] of murder, blackmail, or merely of poor investigating”
• “evidence of the author’s general disposition toward the topic does not establish whether he espoused each particular allegation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).