Gray v. St. Martin's Press, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• defining a public controversy as covering “the methods and influence of lobbyists in Washington” and stretching “from the early 1980s onward”
• describing Gray as “being identified as one of the best-known of the high-level Washington public relations experts, an emblematic figure, and a self-professed defender against attacks on lobbying.”
• “Recklessness . . . can be shown by proving that the defendant actually had a ‘high degree of awareness of . . . probably falsity, but mere negligence in conducting an investigation or weighing the evidence is not enough.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).