Levin v. McPhee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying only New York law and indicating that “[w]hatever the ultimate import of Milkovich, New York’s Court of Appeals has held that opinion receives greater protection under the New York than under the United States Constitution.”
• in defamation cases, the court’s “limited function” is to determine “as a matter of law whether the statements complained of are reasonably susceptible of a defamatory construction”
• New York was the site of the first publication
• applying only the New York standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).