Purcell v. Ewing

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a post on an online message board calling the plaintiff a “bully” and a “moron” were not defamatory, as they were “merely caustic insults to which reasonable people would pay little heed”
• finding statements that alumnus looked like “someone accused of child molestation” was non-actionable opinion
• “The title of the posting (‘Look at the pictures’) and its opening sentence (‘If one looks at the photos’) invite readers to evaluate the photograph and form their own conclusions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).