Moore v. Sun Publishing Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the threshold question is “whether a reasonable fact finder could conclude that the published statements imply a provably false factual assertion”
• identifying false light invasion of privacy as a \close cousin\ to defamation which does not require evidence that the plaintiff was defamed
• treating 4 defamation by implication in the same manner as libel per quod
• “The essence of [false light], a close cousin of defamation, is the placing of another ‘in a false light in the public eye.’”
• elaborating on the required elements of false light and appropriation
• “New Mexico appears to be among the states requiring verifiability as the controlling element in determining whether a statement is fact or opinion. Under this analysis, opinions are statements which cannot be proved or disproved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).