Kirby v. Wildenstein

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the special damages requirement goes to the very heart of a cause of action, and that courts apply this requirement strictly and routinely grant motions to dismiss for failure to allege special damages with the requisite specificity
• product disparagement actions differ from libel actions in that they deal with “words or conduct which tend to disparage or reflect negatively on the quality, condition or value of a product or property”
• “A catalogue raisonné is regarded as a definitive catalogue of the works of a particular artist; inclusion of a painting in a catalogue raisonné serves to authenticate the work, while non-inclusion suggests that the work is not genuine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).