Palmer v. Bennington School District, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding school principal was a \public official\ based on principal's own admissions as to his authority
• discussing importance of education in preserving representa tive government and noting “state’s commitment to this essential government function”
• “Few courts have considered whether a school principal is a public official. Those that have are divided.”
• “[b]ecause of the crucial role of public education in American society, we agree with the courts holding that a principal is a public official”
• “Few courts have considered whether a school principal is a public official. Those that have are divided. Because of the crucial role of public education in American society, we agree with the courts holding that a principal is a public official.” (citations omitted)
• public elementary school principal is a public official

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Huckabee v. Time Warner Entertainment Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 260×
• Brigham v. State
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-02-05· cited 64×
• Goodwin v. Kennedy
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-08-06· cited 30×
• Beeching v. Levee
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-02-28· cited 23×
• Netherwood v. American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Local 1725
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-19· cited 20×
• East Canton Education Ass'n v. McIntosh
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1999-05-19· cited 18×
• Johnson v. Robbinsdale Independent School District No. 281
  D. Minnesota· 1993-07-29· cited 16×
• Williams v. Detroit Board of Education
  E.D. Michigan· 2007-10-30· cited 6×
• Jee v. New York Post Co.
  New York Supreme Court· 1998-03-06· cited 5×
• Soojung Jang v. Trs. of St. Johnsbury Acad.
  D. Vermont· 2018-07-06· cited 4×
• Herrera v. Union No. 39 School District
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2006-08-04· cited 3×
• E. Canton Edn. Assn. v. McIntosh
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1999-05-19· cited 2×
• Herrera v. Union No. 39 School Dist.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2006-08-04
• Brandon Darby v. the New York Times Company and James C. McKinley, Jr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-02-04
• McNulty v. Kessler
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1995-04-03
• Collins v. Taos Board of Education
  D. New Mexico· 2012-09-27

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Brown v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 3,819×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-09· cited 1,899×
• Garrison v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 1,859×
• Rosenblatt v. Baer
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-21· cited 1,111×
• Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 1,025×
• Hutchinson v. Proxmire
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 738×
• Sugarman v. Dougall
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 451×
• Ambach v. Norwick
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-17· cited 255×
• Scott v. News-Herald
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-08-06· cited 207×
• Poplaski v. Lamphere
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-08-04· cited 111×
• Kapiloff v. Dunn
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-07-23· cited 57×
• Messier v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-06-01· cited 38×
• McCutcheon v. Moran
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-08-17· cited 36×
• Colombo v. Times-Argus Ass'n, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1977-10-31· cited 34×
• State v. DeLaBruere
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-04-27· cited 33×
• Lorain Journal Co. Et Al. v. Milkovich
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 23×
• Rutz v. Essex Junction Prudential Committee
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1983-01-27· cited 19×