Swate v. Schiffers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that newspaper articles were admissible in a defamation action to show that the plaintiff “already had a terrible reputation” and that the statements complained about “were not even defamatory”
• rejecting defamation plaintiff’s contention that newspaper articles were inadmissible as hearsay, as the articles were “hearsay only if offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted therein” and were “admissible as nonhearsay” if offered for other purposes
• “[T]he earlier newspaper articles ... describe conduct that would have ruined [the plaintiffs] reputation prior to the publication of [the defendants’] article.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).