Maxwell Kadel v. Dale Folwell

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How courts have described this case

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• assuming without deciding that Virginia law governed where the parties and district court had proceeded on that assumption
• applying Virginia law to find that falsely publishing that the plaintiff was responsible for anthrax mailings causing five deaths was sufficient to successfully plead an IIED claim
• affirming denial of motion to dismiss because while the plaintiff “did not allege his emotional distress in such specific terms, . . . Rule 8—applicable in this diversity case—did not require him to do so”
• “A'defamation complaint,-like any other-civil complaint in federal court, must provide ‘a short and plain statement of the claim’ ”
• “When [plaintiff] took a voluntary nonsuit in his original state-court action, he did so with respect to the set of operative facts underlying his complaint.”
• “The question whether a statement is capable of having a defamatory meaning is a question of law to be decided by the court.”

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