Sivulich v. Howard Publications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to conclude that statement \`[c]harges of aggravated battery have been filed'\ against plaintiff appeared misleading in that it necessarily implied that police had filed criminal, as opposed to civil, charges
• refusing to conclude that statement “ ‘[c]harges of aggravated battery have been filed’ ” against plaintiff appeared misleading in that it necessarily implied that police had filed criminal, as opposed to civil, charges
• defendant printed that plaintiff was “charged” with battery; in truth, plaintiff had been civilly sued for same act
• article was substantially true even though it contained immaterial error as to the date the complaint was filed
• summary judgment for defendant upheld on grounds that report that plaintiff was charged with aggravated assault, when read in context, was substantially true, although plaintiff had in fact only been subject to civil suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).