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Supreme Court of New Jersey· 8/8/1989

Decker v. Princeton Packet, Inc.

Citations

  • 561 A.2d 1122
  • 116 N.J. 418
  • 85 A.L.R. 4th 797
  • 16 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2194
  • 1989 N.J. LEXIS 111

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the defendant’s patent mistake of announcing the plaintiff’s death in an obituary did not give rise for a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • holding that the defendant’s patent mistake of announcing the plaintiff’s death in an obituary did not give rise for a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • explaining that the “allegedly defamatory statement must be taken in context and the publication considered as a whole”
  • noting that federal courts have found that, “the [F]irst [A]mendment requires that plaintiff establish at least the same level of intent to recover for the infliction of emotional harm as is necessary to find defamation”
  • concluding where a claim is \essentially one of defamation\ allowing it to stand as a claim for false light would \condone a transparent evasion of the one -year [SOL]\
  • explaining that “[a] defamatory statement is one that is false and is ‘injurious to the reputation of another’ ” or “tends to ... deter third persons from associating or dealing with” the victim

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Judges: Clifford, Handler, Pollock, O'Hern, Garibaldi, Stein

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