Hirsch v. Schwartz & Cohen, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, while “actual malice” should not be confused with “evil intent or a motive arising from spite or ill will,” an “intent to injure plaintiff’ is relevant to the actual malice inquiry (citations omitted)
• defining actual malice as “knowledge that [the statement] was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).