El Paso Times, Inc. v. Trexler

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s subjective reasonable belief that the publication was substantially correct was enough to negate actual malice in a letter-to-the-editor case
• holding proof of failure to investigate does not evidence actual malice
• even \[negligence] or failure to act as a reasonably prudent man [in investigating a story] is [] insufficient\ to establish actual malice
• even “[negligence] or failure to act as a reasonably prudent man [in investigating a story] is [] insufficient” to establish actual malice
• proof of utter failure to investigate amounted to no evidence of actual malice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).