Missner v. Clifford

How courts have described this case

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• referring to the related rule barring a person from conferring the privilege on himself as an exception to the privilege
• noting generally that “[w]hether a publication occurred at all is a question for the jury”
• under the innocent construction rule, if a statement may reasonably be interpreted as referring to someone other than the plaintiff, it is not actionable per se
• when the defamed group is sufficiently small and the words may reasonably be understood to have personal reference and application to any member of the group, that group member is defamed as an individual
• “Both media and nonmedia reporters may claim protection under the privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).