Fasi v. Gannett Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• use of “Blackmail incorporated,” “Frank ‘The Extortionist’ Fasi,” and “legalized blackmail” to describe Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi was “rhetorical hyperbole” and “imaginative expression” protected by the first amendment
• defendant’s likening of plaintiffs actions to extortion was mere opinion and not actionable where the underlying facts of what the plaintiff did were not in dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).