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· 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

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  • 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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