Neish v. Beaver Newspapers, Inc.

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• statements mentioning the plaintiff’s absence from council meetings and the plaintiff’s refusal to attend private council meetings and offer verbal opinions were not defamatory
• “a publication is actionable if it is not true, is highly offensive to a reasonable person and is publicized with knowledge or in reckless disregard of its falsity”
• “a publication is actionable if it is not true, is highly offensive to a reasonable person and is publicized with knowledge or in reckless disregard of its falsity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).