Lewis v. NewsChannel 5 Network, L.P.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the fair report privilege did not apply because defendant’s story “contained [both information gathered from a press release and] other information regarding . . . details . . . that did not come from the press release”
• providing examples of the official actions and proceedings to which the privilege has been applied
• relying on comment a of the Restatement to support the court’s statement that the purpose of the privilege is to keep the public informed of official proceedings
• “Failing to investigate information provided by others before publishing it, even when a reasonably prudent person would have done so, is not sufficient by itself to establish reckless disregard.” (citations omitted)
• brother-in-law of police officer considered involuntary public figure when controversy erupted over officer’s alleged efforts to prevent brother-in-law’s arrest
• “The Court of Appeals may affirm a judgment on different grounds than those relied on by the trial court when the trial court reached the correct result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).