Elvin Marquette Farris v. State of Iowa

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• holding that the First Amendment prohibited recovery in a civil libel action based on a jury finding that the defendant newspaper published editorials “with [a] bad or corrupt motive” or “from personal spite, ill will or a desire to injure [the] plaintiff
• stating that the jury instruction that actual malice was established if the jurors found that the editorials were published with ill will was a incorrect statement of the law
• noting actual malice cannot be based merely on defendant’s “ ‘bad or corrupt motive,’ ” “ ‘personal spite, ill will or a desire to injure plaintiff ”
• \our duty is to make an independent examination of the evidence and determine whether there was a clear and convincing showing of actual malice\
• “personal spite, ill will or a desire to injure plaintiff’ is not equivalent of actual malice
• \our duty is to make an independent examination of the evidence and determine whether there was a clear and convincing showing of actual malice\

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