Ilse Koch v. Ruth Yannatta Goldway, Individually, and in Her Capacity as Mayor of the City of Santa Monica

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in “a heated political debate,” “certain remarks are necessarily understood as ridicule or vituperation, or both, but not as descriptive of factual matters”
• “the context of a statement may control whether words were understood in a defamatory sense”
• \the context of a statement may control whether words were understood in a defamatory sense\
• “Context does resolve the matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).