Loeb v. Geronemus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding express malice which negates a “qualified privilege must be actual and not merely inferred from falsity”
• inferring express malice from state- ments that the plaintiff was “a man of low moral character” and a “bad actor” whose “evil conduct” and “scandalous activities” were a “bad example for our children”
• defendants said plaintiff was guilty of evil conduct, was of low moral character, was a disgrace, a troublemaker, was not respectable, had been compelled to leave Chicago
• “Only certain well-defined classes of imputation as to crime, disease, particular unfitness for office, etc., or unchastity, have been deemed [defamatory] per se.”
• “The gist of a civil action for conspiracy is not the conspiracy itself but the civil wrong which is alleged to have been done pursuant to the conspiracy.”
• “malice cannot be inferred from the fact that some statements are untrue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).