Mercer v. Cosley

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming trial court’s rendering summary judgment in favor of defendant after having ‘‘conclude[d] that the [alleged defamatory] statements were true, either sub- stantially or literally’’
• trial court's statements \merely served to explain the [legal] basis for the court's ruling and [are] not demonstrative of any bias\
• “[W]here the inaccuracies are of a technical nature that conveyed the same meaning as the true facts would have in the eyes of the average reader, summary judgment may be appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).