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· 12/16/1986

Frederick W. Moncrief v. Lexington Herald-Leader Co

Citations

  • 807 F.2d 217
  • 257 U.S. App. D.C. 72
  • 13 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1762
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 34784

How courts have described this case

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  • upholding the district court’s interpretation that the “act” in a libel claim is the creation and publication of the statement
  • “Paragraph (a)(3) . . . is a precise and intentionally restricted tort section which stops short of the outer limits of due process . . . .” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

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Judges: Bork, Buckley, Greene

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