Kenneth Gregory v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the record showed that commentators and journalists did not doubt the truth of Blankenship’s felon status but were merely “confused about how to describe a person who served a year in prison for a federal offense”
• explaining that under West Virginia law “a public-figure plaintiff alleging false light must prove that the defendant made a false statement with actual malice,” and that a civil conspiracy claim requires proof of an underlying wrongful act such as defamation
• affirming award of summary judgment in favor of numerous defendants on similar claims by Blankenship
• under West Virginia law, public figures alleging false light claim must prove that the defendant made a false statement with actual malice
• facts indicated that allegedly defamatory statements were not “inherently improbable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).