John Yiamouyiannis v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.

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• “no showing has been made that they were published with actual malice, let alone a showing that achieves ‘convincing clarity’ ”
• plaintiff became public figure because he actively sought publicity in effort to prevent fluoridation of water supplies
• plaintiff became public figure because he actively sought publicity in effort to prevent fluoridation of water supplies
• plaintiff was active opponent of fluoridation, had written 15 articles, testified in Congress, was paid employee of leading antifluoridation promotional organization, obtained wide publicity for himself and his views

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).