Nizam-Aldine v. City of Oakland

How courts have described this case

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

• holding private-figure plaintiff must prove falsity of statement involving matter of public interest in order to recover damages for defamation from a media defendant
• cataloging cases in California and other jurisdictions which have “rejected the distinction between media and non-media defendants when addressing related First Amendment issues”
• cataloging cases in California and other jurisdictions which have “rejected the distinction between media and non-media defendants when addressing related First Amendment issues”
• dispute had “potentially enormous impact on . . . local residents”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).