Johnson v. Delta-Democrat Pub. Co.

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• recognizing that “name calling and verbal abuse are to be taken as statements of opinion, not fact, and therefore will not give rise to an action for libel”
• “[N]ame calling and verbal abuse are to be taken as statements of opinion, not fact, and therefore will not give rise to an action for [defamation].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).