Moore v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc.

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• explaining failure to allege where and when postings were made were insufficiently precise to state a claim for defamation per se
• affirming dismissal of defamation per se claim where complaint contained “no positive factual statement of criminal animal cruelty to support a defamation per se claim”
• a defamation action cannot be based on statements that do not contain factual assertions, as such statements are protected by the first amendment

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