Eric Waldbaum v. Fairchild Publications, Inc

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the plaintiff's position as president of a grocery cooperative was a factor in the public-figure inquiry
• holding that allegedly defamatory statements concerning large scale drug trafficking, “one of the most troubling issues of our time, surely falls within the ambit of public controversy.”
• explaining that a public figure’s talents, education, experience, and motives were relevant to the public’s decision to listen to him
• explaining that a “public controversy” is “a real dispute, the outcome of which affects the general public or some segment of it in an appreciable way”
• finding that the plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure and setting out that the three-part test applies
• defining a \public controversy\ as \a specific public dispute that has foreseeable and substantial ramifications for persons beyond its immediate participants\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).