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· 12/29/1977

Lionel G. Arcand v. The Evening Call Publishing Company

Citations

  • 567 F.2d 1163
  • 3 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1748
  • 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 5426

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding defamatory statement referring to one unspecified police officer in a group of twenty-one was not “of or concerning” each individual officer in group
  • holding defamatory statement referring to one unspecified police officer in a group of twenty-one was not “of or concerning” each individual officer in group
  • “[W]hile discounting the defamatory nature of the statement, ... it was probably libelous if it could be held to refer to a particular individual”

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Judges: Coffin, Campbell, Bownes

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