Stevens v. Iowa Newspapers, Inc.

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• noting that summary judgment must be decided by reference to the evidentiary standard at trial
• ruling the jury would decide whether comments accurately stating a sports columnist “rarely attended events upon which he wrote columns” was defamation by implication where statements implied he fabricated the columns he wrote
• finding the true statement in an article that a writer “rarely attended events upon which he wrote columns,” which named the writer and stated the fact in a negative way, could reasonably be interpreted to imply the writer’s work was untruthful
• “A party resisting a motion for summary judgment cannot rely on the mere assertions in his pleadings but must come forward with evidence to demonstrate that a genuine issue of fact is presented.”
• “A party resisting a motion for summary judgment cannot rely on the mere 12 assertions in his pleadings but must come forward with evidence to demonstrate that a genuine issue of fact is presented.”
• adopting the principle of defamation by implication

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