Johnson v. Nickerson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[t]o recover in an action for defamation, a plaintiff must ordinarily prove some sort of cognizable injury, such as injury to reputation”
• stating “all the elements of proof are presumed to exist for statements that are libelous per se”
• stating \all the elements of proof are presumed to exist for statements that are libelous per se\
• finding a newspaper was a media defendant and, thus, “the distinction between libel and libel per se has become irrelevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).