Tonnessen v. Denver Publishing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that a statement “prejudice the plaintiff in the eyes of a substantial and respectable minority of the community”
• “[T]he fact that an individual has done one bad thing does not necessarily mean the individual has done another entirely separate bad act.”
• “A statement imputing a criminal offense is defamatory per se.”
• “A statement imputing a criminal offense is defamatory per se.”
• “A statement imputing a criminal offense is defamatory per se.”
• applying the incremental harm doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).