Lakeshore Community Hospital, Inc v. Perry

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• finding that the defendant did not defame or interfere with business relations by, among other actions, “questioning the operation of the plaintiff hospital” and expressing opposition to merger
• finding that the defendant did not defame or interfere with business relations by, among other actions, “questioning the operation -11- of the plaintiff hospital” and expressing opposition to a merger
• applying the actual malice standard when tortious interference claim was likewise based on defamatory statements
• a public figure attains such status by voluntarily assuming a role of special prominence in societal affairs
• “the statement ... is a statement about future events and therefore does not imply the existence of a fact”
• “where the conduct allegedly causing the business interference is a defendant’s utterance of negative statements concerning a plaintiff, privileged speech is a defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).