Godbout v. Cousens

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• determining whether the article refers to the plaintiff is a question of fact which may be evaluated in light of the facts and circumstances attending publication
• plaintiff must establish that actor intended to inflict emotional distress or that he knew or should have known that emotional distress was likely result
• non-movant must submit admissible evidence of the existence of a dispute as to material facts
• allegations in an unverified pleading are not accorded any evidentiary weight
• allegations contained in unverified complaint have no evidentiary weight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).