Gettner v. Fitzgerald

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• report that plaintiff was demoted because of unsatisfactory job performance deemed capable of being proved false
• published account of why professional was demoted from executive position could be proven false and, thus, was not merely a matter of opinion
• “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.”

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