Scottie Pippen v. NBCUniversal Media LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[e]very state court that has considered the question applies the single-publication rule to information online” (collecting cases
• noting that the single-publication rule “protects speakers and writers from repeated litigation arising from a single, but mass-produced, defamatory publication”
• explaining that inability to perform his duties “seems to imply some sort of on-the-job malfeasance” whereas lack of ability to perform “covers suitability for a trade or profession.”
• explaining that the Supreme Court in Sullivan concluded “that actual malice cannot be inferred from a publisher’s failure to retract a statement once it learns it to be false.”
• noting that \[t]he difference between the two [categories] is subtle\
• noting that “[t]he difference between the two [categories] is subtle”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).