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· 1/30/1996

Robert C. McFarlane v. Esquire Magazine

Citations

  • 74 F.3d 1296
  • 316 U.S. App. D.C. 35
  • 24 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1332
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 1151
  • 1996 WL 31984

How courts have described this case

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

  • circulation in the District of a magazine containing an allegedly libelous article is not a sufficient “act” to support personal jurisdiction where the article was written outside of the District and delivered to a magazine outside of the District for publication
  • “The standard of actual malice 3 is a daunting one.”
  • sharing facts undermining the credibility of the article’s source

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Williams, Ginsburg, Randolph

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