Old Homestead Enterprises of Saratoga, Inc. v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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• claim that defendant committed libel by informing the authorities that plaintiff was endorsing checks made payable to the defendant and depositing them in plaintiffs account held non-actionable where plaintiff had in fact endorsed checks made payable to the defendant
• the absolute defense applies as long as the publication is “substantially true”
• same in pure slander case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).