Farnsworth v. Hyde

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• defining “a defamatory communication as” including one that would “tend to diminish the esteem, respect, goodwill or confidence in which [a person] is held or to excite adverse, derogatory or unpleasant feelings or opinions against them” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• defining “a defamatory communication as” including one that would “tend to diminish the esteem, respect, goodwill or confidence in which [a person] is held or to excite adverse, derogatory or unpleasant feelings or opinions against them” (internal quotation marks omitted
• “a person is defamed if his reputation is tarnished among * * * the community or * * * the defamed’s associates”
• internal quotation marks omitted; ellipses and first bracketed material in original, others added
• “American courts generally have held that a person is defamed if his reputation is tarnished among ‘a substantial and respectable minority’ of the community or the defamed’s associates.” (Quoting Restatement (First
• “American courts generally have held that a person is defamed if his reputation is tarnished among ‘a substantial and respectable minority’ of the community or the defamed’s associates.” (Quoting Restatement (First

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