· 6/30/1993
James v. San Jose Mercury News, Inc.
Citations
- 17 Cal. App. 4th 1
- 20 Cal. Rptr. 2d 890
- 21 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1624
- 93 Daily Journal DAR 8475
- 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5066
- 1993 Cal. App. LEXIS 699
How courts have described this case
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- finding statements not susceptible of being proved true or false because the statements contained too many generalizations, elastic terms, and subjective elements for it to be clear what facts were stated or implied
- where the court found that an article describing a lawyer as engaging in “sleazy, illegal, and unethical practice” fell into protected zone of “imaginative expression” or “rhetorical hyperbole”
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Judges: Bamattre-Manoukian
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