Gomba v. McLaughlin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that requiring a defendant to prove literal or absolute truth would be unnecessarily strict and contrary to common sense
• defendant entitled to assert truth as defense to per se defamatory statement that plaintiff had \assaulted\ another individual
• defendant entitled to assert truth as defense to per se defamatory statement that plaintiff had “assaulted” another individual
• “A defendant asserting truth as a defense in a libel action is not required to justify every word of the alleged defamatory matter; it is sufficient if the substance, the gist, the sting, of the matter is true.”
• question whether a statement is true is a factual one
• substantial truth is an absolute defense to a defamation claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).