Mihalik v. Duprey

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a school committee member was a public official
• statements in newsletter, taken collectively, were “too vague and uncertain, and too fragile in impact” to be defamatory
• in public official case, “falsity . . . has not been established merely because in the aggregate [statements] have an insinuating overtone”
• “[i]n other contexts such individually truthful, but inadequately explained, statements might collectively be found to have amounted to a ‘half truth . . . tantamount to a falsehood’ ”
• insinuating overtone insufficient to constitute libel of public figure
• insinuating overtone insufficient to constitute libel of public figure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).