Munoz v. American Lawyer Media, L.P.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the news media serves to guarantee the fairness of trials and to bring to bear the beneficial effects of public scrutiny upon the administration of justice in both civil and criminal cases
• recognizing that the news media serves to guarantee the fairness of trials and to bring to bear the beneficial effects of public scrutiny upon the administration of justice in both civil and criminal cases
• concluding that “the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress will not provide a remedy to a plaintiff when the news media truthfully reports an actual newsworthy event, even if the event was so insulting as naturally to humiliate, embarrass or frighten the plaintiff’
• opposing party’s timely response specifically objecting to amount, reasonableness and necessity of fees was sufficient to preclude a waiver by opposing party’s conduct
• opposing party’s timely response specifically objecting to amount, reasonableness and necessity of fees was sufficient to preclude a waiver by opposing party’s conduct
• party may waive right to evidentiary hearing, either expressly or by conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).