Davis v. Costa-Gavras

How courts have described this case

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

• “The standard is not whether the statements are exclusively susceptible of the meaning alleged by the plaintiffs, but whether such an understanding is a reasonable one.”
• “The fact, moreover, that a reasonable viewer might interpret the film [not to be defamatory] is irrelevant with respect to the threshold issue of whether the film is reasonably susceptible of the defamatory meaning ascribed to it by plaintiffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).