Forbes Inc. v. Granada Biosciences, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining essential elements of business disparagement as “(1) the defendant published false and disparaging information about it, (2) with malice, (3) without privilege, (4
• listing elements as the publication of false and disparaging information with malice, and without privilege, causing special damages
• “More than a scintilla of evidence exists if it would allow reasonable and fair-minded people to differ in their conclusions.”
• reckless disregard requires plaintiff to show that defendant had serious doubts about the truth of the alleged defamatory statement or high degree of awareness that it was likely false
• “A business disparagement claim is similar in many respects to a defamation action.”
• business-disparagement claim requires proof of “special damages to the plaintiff”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).