Hinsdale v. Orange County Publications, Inc.

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• holding that extrinsic facts may be considered in determining whether a written statement is libelous per se if the extrinsic facts are \presumably known to [the] readers\ of the challenged statement
• holding that extrinsic facts may be considered in determining whether a written statement is libelous per se if the extrinsic facts are “presumably known to [the] readers” of the challenged statement
• \[A] fact not expressed in the newspaper but presumably known to its readers is part of the libel.\
• “[A] fact not expressed in the newspaper but presumably known to its readers is part of the libel.”
• libel per se despite reliance on extrinsic fact, at least where the fact “not expressed in the newspaper [is] presumably known to its readers”

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