Gennifer Flowers v. James Carville Hillary Rodham Clinton Little, Brown & Co. George Stephanopoulos

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• holding that federal courts applying state law must apply the forum state's borrowing statute in determining which state's statute of limitations governs
• holding that “harsh 5 name-calling” such as “‘trash,’ ‘crap’ and ‘garbage’” was not defamatory
• stating that a showing of actual malice is 6 required to prevail on a false light claim
• finding the plaintiff’s cause of action for a defamation claim accrued upon the occurrence of the tortious act
• noting this court will “affirm dismissal of the false light claims where we have affirmed dismissal of the parallel defamation claims”
• finding a defamation claim was sufficiently plead when plaintiff “list[ed] the precise 4 statements alleged to be false and defamatory, who made them and when.”

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