Kelly v. Schmidberger

How courts have described this case

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

• finding statement that plaintiff priests placed church property “in their own names” to be factual and imputing corrupt and possibly criminal conduct
• “The distinction between fact and opinion is . . . critical in determining whether a defamatory statement may be actionable.”
• “On a motion to dismiss or for summary judgment, the issue is not whether the court regards the language as libelous, but whether it is reasonably susceptible of such a construction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).