· 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”
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Judges: Calabresi, Graafeiland, Leval
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