Seegmiller v. KSL, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “the integrity of an individual’s reputation is essential to his standing in society, in his vocation, and even in his family”
• holding that \the necessary degree of fault which must be shown in a defamatory action by a 'private individual against the media in negligence\
• recognizing that “the integrity of an individual’s reputation is essential to his stand ing in society, in his vocation, and even in his family”
• holding that “the necessary degree of fault which must be shown in a defamation action brought by a ‘private individual’ against the media is negligence”
• explaining that libel per se and defamation per se were actionable at common law without proof of special damages
• noting that pre-1964 law “presumed damage to reputation from the defamation itself’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).