Leon Kendall v. Daily News Publishing Co

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• holding that Congress’s recent elimination of the Third Circuit’s certiorari jurisdiction over decisions of the Virgin Islands Supreme Court does not affect, at a minimum, certiorari petitions filed before the effective date of the jurisdiction-stripping act
• holding that Congress’s recent elimination of the Third Circuit’s certiorari jurisdiction over decisions of the Virgin Islands Supreme Court does not affect, at a minimum, certiorari petitions filed before the effective date of the jurisdiction-stripping act
• “[I]f mere knowledge were sufficient to find defamatory intent, then actual malice could be found no matter how unlikely it is that a listener would interpret the statement as having the defamatory meaning.”
• “Mere disbelief of a defendant’s statement ordinarily is insufficient to establish malice.”
• “In ordinary defamation cases, intent to defame can be established solely through knowledge that the statement was false. After all, if the defendants knew that the statement made was false and defamatory, then they must have intended to defame.”

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