Veilleux v. National Broadcasting Co.

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• holding that the independent-review requirement also applies to review of whether a media defendant’s allegedly defamatory statements were “provable as false”
• indicating that a statement that is not substantially true is materially false, and vice versa
• recognizing a constitutional requirement that “private individuals must prove fault amounting at least to negligence on the part of a media defendant, at least as to matters of public concern”
• noting that false light does not distinguish between oral and written words or between slander per se and slander per quod, and that false light contains an expanded publicity requirement
• noting that “under Maine law” NIED cannot be premised on the alleged publication of defamatory content
• noting that constitutional limitations on defamation actions apply equally to false light actions

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