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· 3/10/2004

DeLeon v. Doe

Citations

  • 361 F.3d 93
  • 2004 WL 438329

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that evidence of a preconceived story line can speak to whether defendant acted with actual malice
  • explaining that the reporter had testified that he wanted to “‘shock the public’ by reporting that a public official was misusing taxpayer money”
  • “[T]he fact that KING included Ms. Harris’s denials in its broadcast rebuts an inference of actual malice”
  • where evidence “that a defendant conceived a story line in advance of an investigation and then consciously set out to make the evidence conform to the preconceived story”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Calabresi, Graafeiland, Leval

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