· 11/2/1984
Liberty Lobby, Inc. v. Jack Anderson
Citations
- 746 F.2d 1563
- 241 U.S. App. D.C. 246
- 11 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1001
- 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 17096
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- psychiatrist describing Jeffrey Dahmer as “an organized, non-social, lust murderer,” but “not such a bad person”
- “[W]e cannot envision how a court would go about determining that someone’s reputation had already been ‘irreparably’ damaged—i.e., that no new reader could be reached by the freshest libel.”
- calling the libel-proof plaintiff a “bad idea”
- calling the libel-proof plaintiff a “bad idea”
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Judges: Edwards, Scalia, Harris
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