Friedgood v. Peters Pub. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that defamation plaintiff was a public figure because she played a prominent role in the case and the attendant public controversy
• “[I]t may be possible for someone to become a public figure through no purposeful action of their own.”
• public controversy centered around the “highly publicized criminal prosecution[]” of the plaintiff and her father

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).