Vinson v. Linn-Mar Community School District

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that applying lower standard of fault in defamation cases with non-media defendants “does not threaten the free and robust debate of public issues or a meaningful dialogue about self-government”
• holding a statute was substantive because it took away a right of recovery and holding the statute thus could not be applied retrospectively
• indicating “the court should consider the relationship between the parties” when making an outrageous conduct determination
• indicating “the court should consider the relationship between the parties” when making an outrageous conduct determination
• collecting over 20 cases and noting that the “outrageousness element requires substantial evidence of extreme conduct”
• finding conduct did not exceed all bounds of decency even if the actions could be characterized as “petty and wrong, even malicious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).