Potomac Valve & Fitting Inc. Raymond C. McGarvey v. Crawford Fitting Company Dibert Valve & Fitting Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a verifiable statement still qualifies as an “opinion” if “a reasonable reader or listener would recognize its weakly substantiated or subjective character—and discount it accordingly”
• explaining that the contents of a company's newsletter would be understood as reflecting the professional interests of the company rather than as \a dispassionate and impartial assessment\ of a test of a competitor's product
• explaining that the contents of a company’s newsletter would be understood as reflecting the professional interests of the company rather than as “a dispassionate and impartial assessment” of a test of a competitor’s product
• explaining that statements that are “inherently impossible to prove or disprove” are “protected by the First Amendment”
• noting that the threshold inquiry is whether the challenged statement can be characterized as true or false; if the statement cannot be characterized as either true or false then it is not actionable
• noting that the threshold inquiry is whether the challenged statement can be characterized as true or false; if the statement cannot be characterized as either true or false then it is not actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).