Long v. Egnor

How courts have described this case

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

• “[a] court must decide initially whether as a matter of law the challenged statements in a defamation action are capable of a defamatory meaning”
• “[S]tatements of opinion are absolutely protected under the First Amendment and cannot form the basis for a defamation action.”
• “no question that [elected] Board [of Education] members must be treated as public officials, as that term is used in libel law”
• assertion that some threatened action will violate the law is nondefamatory
• assertion that some threatened action will violate the law is nondefamatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).