Thuma v. Hearst Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• reference to police shooting as \cold-blooded murder\ was hyperbole used to voice disapproval for what the speaker believed to be an unjustified shooting
• father’s statement that shooting of son by police officer was “cold-blooded murder,” was, in context, “clearly hyperbole expressing the father’s most vehement feeling that the shooting was completely unnecessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).