Dean v. Dearing

How courts have described this case

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• holding that mere conclusory statements “do[ ] not satisfy the pleading requirement” necessary to withstand a demurrer
• noting “only one case in Virginia [] has dealt directly with the issue of small group defamation since Ewell v. Boutwell.”
• rejecting the defamation claim of an individual officer because the defendant’s accusations neither referenced the plaintiff nor could be understood to have specifically implicated him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).