Russin v. Wesson

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• noting that the defendant must have been at least negligent in making the statement
• no defamation when non-media defendant characterized plaintiff as “thief”—even though plaintiff committed only conversion—because it was a “legally mistaken but substantially accurate statement” especially because legal terms of art are “more broadly defined in lay usage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).