Deitz v. Wometco West Michigan Tv, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the common-law definition of malice involving ill will or spite no longer applies to defamation claims—the plaintiff need only prove ordinary negligence
• a criminal conviction for assault and battery collaterally estopped the criminal defendant from prosecuting a civil suit for defamation against the person he assaulted
• implicitly upholding the non-mutual, defensive use of collateral estoppel from a criminal to civil context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).