Sanders v. Prince

How courts have described this case

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• stating that when a government employee’s conduct constitutes actual malice, he is not entitled to immunity from suit
• directing trial judge to charge only constitutional actual malice principles in retrial of case involving public official, and forbidding charge on inapplicable principles of common law malice
• directing trial judge to charge only constitutional actual malice principles in retrial of case involving public official, and forbidding charge on inapplicable principles of common law malice
• in a case involving defamation of a public official, plaintiff must prove defendant acted with actual mal ice
• jury may not impose liability on basis of defendant’s hatred, spite, ill will, or desire to injure as “[i]ll will toward the plaintiff, or bad motives, are not elements of the New York Times standard”
• Davis Adv. Sh. No. 9 at p.28

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).