National Life Insurance v. Phillips Publishing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that in defamation cases, “[l]egal precedent requires a dual inquiry regarding the subject matter of the publication and the status of the defamed entity”
• “Plaintiffs complaint is over the fact that the statements were made, not over where they happen to appear.... [I]t is only their chance appearance in the promotional materials that brings any color at all to ‘the cheeks’ of Plaintiffs argument.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).