Schmalenberg v. Tacoma News, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] defamation plaintiff may not recover without showing that the false part of the statement increased its ‘sting.’ ”
• a statement may be provably false because it is falsely attributed to a person who did not make it even if the matter asserted in the statement is true
• \A defamation claim must be based on a statement that is provably false\
• “A defamation claim must be based on a statement that is provably false.”
• under Washington law, “proximate cause is an element of defamation”
• \Falsity can be express or implied.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).