Hovey v. Iowa State Daily Publication Board, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant printed that plaintiff-victim had been raped; actually, she had been forced to commit an oral sex act and no genital sexual intercourse had occurred
• statement that criminal defendant charged with rape rather than second degree sexual assault not defamatory
• statement 14 that criminal defendant charged with rape rather than second 15 degree sexual assault not defamatory
• “Legal writers who have attempted to interpret the new Iowa Criminal Code . . . have noted that the terms ‘rape’ and ‘sexual abuse’ are regarded interchangeably.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).