Peshak v. Greer

How courts have described this case

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• defining libel, in relevant part, as (1) a defamation expressed in writing that (2) tends to injure a living person's reputation and (3
• jury may opt to award only nominal damages when general damages are presumed in defamation per se case
• “In actions of libel per se, the law presumes the existence of some actual damages, requiring no independent proof of general damages.”
• “amount of general damages is very difficult to determine, and the jury is given wide discretion in its estimation of them”
• “In actions of libel per se, the law presumes the existence of some actual damages, requiring no independent proof of general damages.”
• although existence of such damage is presumed, amount of damage remains question for jury, which may opt to award only nominal damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).