Lucas v. Cranshaw

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the omission of certain information from a state- ment does not necessarily render it false for defamation purposes
• explaining that Georgia case law has incorporated the definition of slander into the definition of libel, rendering “that which is slander per se also . . . libel per se”
• instructing courts to look at a writing as the average reader to whom it is addressed would
• \A publication claimed to be defamatory must be read and construed in the sense in which the readers to whom it is addressed would ordinarily understand it.\
• “A publication claimed to be defamatory must be read and construed in the sense in which the readers to whom it is addressed would ordinarily understand it.”
• “If an opinion is based upon facts already disclosed in the communication, the expression of the opinion implies nothing other than the speaker's subjective interpretation of the facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).