Flynn v. Associated Press

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply discovery rule when there was widespread publicity of issue of public concern in local community
• “The discovery rule does not apply to a public libel printed in a newspaper widely available to the public, including the plaintiff.”
• “Plaintiffs who are minors are protected by tolling of the statute of limitations until they attain their majority”
• where claims for libel, emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and violation of civil rights were predicated on publication of article, discovery rule analysis as to libel claim was applicable to all claims
• in libel cases, statute of limitations begins to run on date of publication
• invasion of privacy, civil rights violations, and infliction of emotional distress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).