· 7/29/1993
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Inc. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF CITY AND CTY. OF SAN FRANCISCO
Citations
- 17 Cal. App. 4th 655
- 21 Cal. Rptr. 2d 464
- 93 Daily Journal DAR 9751
- 21 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1791
- 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5763
- 1993 Cal. App. LEXIS 788
How courts have described this case
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- average reader would recognize phony letter to the editor as “a fake and a joke”
- average reader would recognize phony letter to the editor as \a fake and a joke\
- “It is not for the court to evaluate the parody as to whether it went ‘too far.’”
- “To be a parody, the jury must find the altered photograph could not reasonably be understood as describing actual facts ... or actual events .... ”
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Judges: Perley
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