Stern v. Cosby

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that defendants’ statements “are not defamatory per se merely because they impute homosexuality to Stern. They are, however, nonetheless susceptible to a defamatory meaning”
• reciting relevant facts in finding that a statement that two men had oral sex and were discovered by another individual was inherently improbable
• ordering sealed documents relied upon by the Court in ruling on the defendant’s motion for summary judgment to be unsealed
• finding post-publication attempt to pay sources to affirm their accounts under oath could reasonably be viewed as evidence that “[the defendant] knew she had fabricated [the statement] and was desperate to come up with an after-the-fact verification”
• noting on summary judgment that defendant’s trip to the Bahamas, taken after plaintiff filed his defamation suit, where she met her sources and offered to pay them to sign affidavits supporting the allegations in her book was probative of actual malice
• noting on summary judgment that the defendant’s trip to the Bahamas, taken after the plaintiff filed his defamation suit, where she met her sources and offered to pay them to sign affidavits supporting the allegations in her book was probative of actual malice

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  S.D. New York· 2013-08-01· cited 46×
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  S.D. New York· 2014-09-30· cited 43×
• Davis v. Fred's Appliance, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-10-23· cited 30×
• Laguerre v. Maurice
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-12-23· cited 25×
• Bouveng v. NYG Capital LLC
  S.D. New York· 2016-03-31· cited 23×
• Cain v. Esthetique
  S.D. New York· 2016-04-20· cited 21×
• Wexler v. Allegion (Uk) Ltd.
  S.D. Illinois· 2019-03-19· cited 13×
• Green v. Cosby
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-10-09· cited 12×
• Berisha v. Lawson
  S.D. Florida· 2018-12-21· cited 10×
• Trent v. Town of Brookhaven
  E.D. New York· 2013-08-15· cited 9×
• Von Kahl v. Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2013-03-31· cited 8×
• Carpenter v. King
  District of Columbia· 2011-06-17· cited 7×
• Leidig v. Buzzfeed, Inc.
  S.D. Illinois· 2019-03-27· cited 7×
• Yonaty v. Mincolla
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2012-05-31· cited 5×
• Cornelius-Millan v. Caribbean University, Inc.
  D. Puerto Rico· 2016-05-18· cited 3×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2024-10-24
• Royall v. Hilliard
  District of Columbia· 2024-11-18

Cites

65 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga
  Second Circuit· 2006-01-10· cited 3,762×
• Carey v. Piphus
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 3,438×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Lawrence v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 1,452×
• United States v. Amodeo
  Second Circuit· 1995-12-08· cited 1,404×
• Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 1,051×
• Liberman v. Gelstein
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-11-24· cited 838×
• Jeffreys v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2005-10-17· cited 817×
• Western World Insurance Company v. Stack Oil, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1990-12-26· cited 605×
• Baumgartner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1944-06-12· cited 372×
• SCR Joint Venture L.P. v. Warshawsky
  Second Circuit· 2009-03-12· cited 337×
• Lino Celle and Radio Mindanao Network Usa, Inc. v. Filipino Reporter Enterprises Inc. And Libertito Pelayo
  Second Circuit· 2000-04-12· cited 323×
• James v. Gannett Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-07-13· cited 281×
• NetJets Aviation, Inc. v. LHC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
  Second Circuit· 2008-08-08· cited 270×
• William F. Buckley, Jr. v. Franklin H. Littell
  Second Circuit· 1976-06-30· cited 220×
• Lou Dibella and Dibella Entertainment, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Bernard Hopkins, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 2005-04-04· cited 211×
• United States v. Mary Rem, Syma Lichter, and Nathan Hanfling, as Executors of the Estate of Henry Rem, Gerard Rem
  Second Circuit· 1994-10-13· cited 197×

Other cases named Stern v. Cosby

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Stern v. Cosby
  S.D. New York· 2007-11-06· cited 36×
• Stern v. Cosby
  S.D. New York· 2007-12-13· cited 31×