Medico, Philip T. v. Time, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in light of Gertz, will retreat from the position taken in Matus
• extending the fair report privilege to confidential FBI reports in a case involving alleged criminal activities of a member of the United States Congress
• absence of the agency rationale is not controlling when the other two rationales are present
• “A third rationale for the fair report privilege rests ... on the public’s interest in learning of important matters.”
• absence of the agency rationale is not controlling when the other two rationales are present
• allegations in nonpublic, but official, Federal Bureau of Investigation investigatory reports submitted by Philadelphia field office qualified for privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).