· 3/8/1976
John W. Carson and Joanna Holland v. Allied News Company, an Illinois Corporation, and National Insider, Inc., an Illinois Corporation
Citations
- 529 F.2d 206
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- The defendant completely fabricated defamatory quotations and printed defamatory allegations which were contradicted by a prior publication which was the source of the article.
- defendants, in fabricating and imagining facts, necessarily entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statements and had a high degree of awareness of their probable falsity
- defendants, in fabricating and imagining facts, necessarily entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statements and had a high degree of awareness of their probable falsity
- defendants, in fabricating and imagining facts, necessarily entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statements and had a high degree of awareness of their probable falsity
- defendants, in 35 fabricating and imagining facts, necessarily entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statements and had a high degree of awareness of their probable falsity
- wife involuntary public figure because of spouse’s notoriety
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Judges: Fairchild, Cummings, Sprecher
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