Walsh v. Miami Herald Publishing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing appellate court’s dismissal of defamation action by police officer where publication of libelous statement “tend[ed] to injure [plaintiff] in his trade”]
• “So far as is relevant here, a publication is per se libe[l]ous if it tends to subject one to distrust, ridicule, contempt[,] or disgrace[] or tends to injure one in his trade or profession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).