William F. Buckley, Jr. v. Franklin H. Littell

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• holding that “allegations of membership or well-defined political affiliation are readily perceivable as allegations of fact susceptible to proof or disproof of falsity”
• holding that use of the term “fascist” to describe William F. Buckley, Jr. constituted opinion
• holding that the terms “‘fascism’ and ‘radical right’ . . . are concepts whose content is so debatable, loose and varying, that they are insusceptible to proof of truth or falsity”
• finding that use of the word \fascist\ \cannot be regarded as having been proved to be [a] statement[] of fact\
• finding that use of the word \fascist\ \cannot be regarded as having been proved to be [a] statement[] of fact\
• reducing punitive damages and declining to remand punitive damages issue for retrial despite overturning one of multiple jury findings of libel

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