Desert Sun Publishing Co. v. Superior Court

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• stressing the public’s tendency to view campaign material as an attack on “loyalties” and “motives” of a political rival rather than an imputation of criminal conduct
• \A political publication may not be dissected and judged word for word or phrase by phrase. The entire publication must be examined.\
• letter printed in newspaper written by supporter of candidate for election to hospital board of directors which contained negative statements about opposing candidate distasteful but not actionable as part of the usual and ordinary kind of political rhetoric
• letter printed in newspaper written by supporter of candidate for election to hospital board of directors which contained negative statements about opposing candidate distasteful but not actionable as part of the usual and ordinary kind of political rhetoric

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