Mzamane v. Winfrey

How courts have described this case

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• noting statements of opinion are actionable where they “imply the existence of undisclosed defamatory facts justifying the opinion.”
• “[U]nder Pennsylvania law, the Court acts as a gatekeeper to determine whether the statements are incapable of defamatory meaning.”
• “the question of actual malice entails a subjective inquiry into the defendant’s belief as to the trustworthiness of the statements at issue”
• “Under Pennsylvania law, the Court acts as a gatekeeper to determine whether the statements are incapable of defamatory meaning in deciding whether any basis exists to proceed to trial.” (citing Tucker v. Phila. Daily News, 848 A.2d 113, 123-24 (Pa. 2004)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).