Levan v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

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• failure to track down every possible source is not purposeful avoidance
• failure to track down every possible source is not purposeful avoidance
• to show actual malice in an implied defamation case, the plaintiff must show that the defendant “entertained serious doubts” that the “underlying thrust” of the publication was true (internal quotation marks omitted)
• failure to track down every possible source is not purposeful avoidance
• taking judicial notice of the prime rate

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Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 446×
• Huckabee v. Time Warner Entertainment Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 260×
• Robert a Bussian James J Keating v. Rjr Nabisco Incorporated
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-14· cited 80×
• Bin Weng v. U.S. Attorney General, Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-04-10· cited 37×
• Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 2014-05-23· cited 35×
• Shkelzen Berisha v. Guy Lawson
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-09-02· cited 30×
• Leah Manzari v. Associated Newspapers
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-07-25· cited 25×
• Energy Capital Corp. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2000-08-22· cited 21×
• Richard Rubin v. U.S. News & World Report, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-11-09· cited 13×
• Berisha v. Lawson
  S.D. Florida· 2018-12-21· cited 10×
• Don King Productions, Inc. v. Walt Disney Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-30· cited 8×
• Robert Addie v. Christian Kjaer
  Third Circuit· 2016-09-07· cited 8×
• West v. Media General Operations, Inc.
  E.D. Tennessee· 2002-03-14· cited 7×
• Weekes-Walker v. Macon County Greyhound Park, Inc.
  M.D. Alabama· 2014-07-16· cited 4×
• Carr v. Forbes, Inc.
  D. South Carolina· 2000-11-09· cited 2×
• Ladner v. New World Communications of Atlanta, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-27· cited 2×
• Bussian v. RJR Nabisco Inc
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-09-14
• Brandon Darby v. the New York Times Company and James C. McKinley, Jr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-02-04

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Garrison v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 1,859×
• Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 1,051×
• Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 1,025×
• Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 858×
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 685×
• Purcell v. BankAtlantic Financial Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-06-25· cited 90×
• Gabriel St. Surin v. Virgin Islands Daily News, Inc. Brodhurst Printery, Inc., D/B/A St. Croix Avis
  Third Circuit· 1994-04-15· cited 84×
• Christ's Bride Ministries, Inc. v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Transportation Display's Inc
  Third Circuit· 1998-06-25· cited 68×
• Byrd v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-08· cited 48×
• Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc. v. Kaufman
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-06-03· cited 35×
• Ralph J. Perk, Cross-Appellee v. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., and Eugene H. Methvin, Cross-Appellants
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-05-01· cited 33×
• Smith v. Cuban American Nat. Foundation
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-03· cited 32×
• Rattray v. City of National City
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-10-07· cited 28×
• Braun v. Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-08-13· cited 19×
• Morgan v. Tice
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-01-11· cited 9×
• Marcus N. Bressler v. Fortune Magazine, a Division of Time Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-10-16· cited 8×

Other cases named Levan v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Levan v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-09-29
• Levan v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-28