Gail Davis v. Diana Ross

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a factually accurate report that an employee was discharged may nonetheless 10 constitute actionable defamation if the report \contains an insinuation that the discharge was for some misconduct\
• finding that in the context of a published article “the words are to be construed not with the close precision expected from lawyers and judges but as they would be read and understood by the public to which they are addressed”
• “New York recognizes a limited category of statements to be libelous per se which do not require pleading and proof of special damages.”
• “[S]lander is generally considered less actionable than libel, because a written publication of a defamatory statement is more lasting and has the likelihood of a wider audience than an oral communication.”
• “mere publication of an employee’s demotion is not itself defamatory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).