Martin v. Lewis

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• holding that even “ ‘[r]ound figures’ or a general allegation of a dollar amount as special damages do not suffice”
• holding that special damages are not a prerequisite to defamation suit but purporting to disapprove of France and Salomone, which held that proof of injury to reputation, not special damages, is such a prerequisite
• observing that, unless a statement is defamatory per se, the statement also must result in special damages or “the loss of something having economic or pecuniary value which must flow directly from the injury to reputation caused by the defamation”
• plaintiff not required to plead and prove special damages in cases involving defamation per se
• \[I]t is settled law that [special damages] must be fully and accurately identified 'with sufficient particularity to identify actual losses'\

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