McDonald v. John P. Scripps Newspaper

How courts have described this case

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

• denying recovery to spelling bee contestant who allegedly lost due to contest official’s impropriety because plaintiff could not show that he would have won spelling bee otherwise
• “A fundamental rule of law is that whether the action be in tort or contract compensatory damages cannot be recovered unless there is a causal connection between the act or omission complained of and the injury sustained.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).