Purvis v. Ballantine

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• holding superintendent public official because he routinely made personnel. administrative and budgetary decisions affecting the public school system
• fact that allegedly defamatory statements were uttered three years after school superintendent's retirement did not change analysis where \public interest in the way in which the prior administration had done its task continued strong\
• actual malice requirement applies to both public figures and public officials

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