NELSON v. AMERICAN HOMETOWN PUBLISHING, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a newspaper’s publication of the plaintiffs’ home address as the address of a registered sex offender was clearly defamatory on its face because a reader could reasonably conclude that a sex offender lived at that address
• negligence is not an independent tort theory in a libel case, as negligence is an element of libel against a private figure
• “Punitive damages, like compensatory damages, do not stand alone as a separate cause of action; they constitute an element of damage subject to proof in connection with Plaintiffs’ [cause of action].”

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