Mangual v. Rotger-Sabat

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Puerto Rico's criminal libel statute facially unconstitutional because it did not require the New York Times and Garrison standard of actual malice be proven in order for a statement disparaging a public figure to be successfully prosecuted
• holding Puerto Rico’s criminal libel statute facially unconstitutional because it did not require the New York Times and Garrison standard of actual malice be proved in order for a statement disparaging a public figure to be successfully prosecuted
• describing the public official designation as “broad” and citing cases in which several circuits have held police officers to be public officials
• describing how definition of “public official” has evolved to “include[] many government employees, including police officers”
• describing the public official designation as “broad” and citing cases in which several circuits have held police officers to be public officials
• finding a pre- enforcement injury in fact where a journalist stated “an intention to continue covering police corruption”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).