Randolph L. Cook v. Oprah Winfrey

How courts have described this case

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

• \`Slander per se means that the slander is accomplished by the very words spoken.'\
• “The Federal Rules do not require that [a plaintiff’s] complaint allege the specific third party or class of third parties with whom he claims to have had a valid business expectancy.”
• “It is axiomatic that a federal court must assure itself that it possesses jurisdiction over the subject matter of an action before it can proceed to take any action respecting the merits of the action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).