Gast v. Brittain

How courts have described this case

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

• “There is ... no wholesale defamation exception for anything that might be labeled opinion.” (punctuation and footnote omitted)
• “assertions regarding ‘immorality’ . . . are plainly the sorts of opinions that are incapable of being proved false”
• an opinion is actionable if it is “so intertwined with false statements of fact that the false total stated constitutes defamation”
• “An opinion can constitute actionable defamation if the opinion can reasonably be interpreted, according to the context of the entire writing in which the opinion appears, to state or imply defamatory facts about the plaintiff that are capable of being proved false.”
• “An opinion can constitute actionable defamation if the opinion can reasonably be interpreted, according to the context of the entire writing in which the opinion appears, to state or imply defamatory facts about the plaintiff that are capable of being proved false.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).