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· 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

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

  • 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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