Nally v. Heckler

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing between assertions of being paid to lie and merely lying where former can be proved true or false whereas latter epithet “merely expressed an opinion which cannot be held libelous however mistaken the opinion might be”
• “We do not believe that the press may be required under the First Amendment to suppress newsworthy statements merely because it has serious doubts regarding their truth”
• special protection afforded to “neutral reportage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).