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· 6/20/2007

Trainor v. the Standard Times

Citations

  • 924 A.2d 766
  • 35 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1920
  • 2007 R.I. LEXIS 78
  • 2007 WL 1764218

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[P]ursuant to the fair report privilege, a reporter is not required to conduct an independent investigation or to verify what is contained in the official document about which he or she is reporting.”
  • involving a police report detailing the arrest of a citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Williams, Goldberg, Flaherty, Suttell, Robinson

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