Moffatt v. Brown

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• holding that candidate for state medical board voluntarily placed herself in position of public attention given strong public interest in board appointee's qualifications
• rejecting summary judgment standard for defamation used by federal courts because it incorporated a substantive evidentiary standard, \inevitably implicat[ing] a weighing of the evidence\
• declining to incorporate the applicable substantive evidentiary standard into this state's summary judgment practice
• \We decline to incorporate the applicable substantive evidentiary standard into this state's summary judgment practice.\
• “Instead of adopting the summary judgment standard articulated in Anderson, we choose to continue our longstanding interpretation of our summary judgment standard as contained in Civil Rule 56(c).”
• “ ‘[T]he clear-and-convincing test inevitably implicates a weighing of the evidence, an exercise that intrudes into the province of the jury.’” (quoting Dairy Stores, Inc. v. Sentinel Publishing Co., 104 N.J. 125, 516 A.2d 220, 236 (1986))

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