Pollock v. Oregon

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a court must uphold a classification “‘if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the classification’”
• rejecting the argument that an account otherwise protected by the fair report privilege was not “fair” because the media outlet did not seek a response from the plaintiff before reporting on the allegations
• the assertion that someone “actually committed the criminal act of extortion” is “capable of being proven false”
• New York courts adopt a “liberal interpretation of the ‘fair and true report’ standard of § 74 so as to provide broad protection to news accounts of judicial proceedings.” (alterations adopted and internal quotation omitted)
• parsing an article summarizing a lawsuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).