Wolfson v. Kirk

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing dismissal of a complaint for slander where the trial court erred in determining that the words were not reasonably susceptible of defamatory meaning
• “[S]ome statements are so obviously defamatory, that is damaging to reputation, that the mere publication of them gives rise to an absolute presumption both of malice and damage.”
• “Where the court finds that a communication could not possibly have a defamatory or harmful effect, the court is justified in either dismissing the complaint for failure to state a cause of action or in granting a directed verdict at the proof stage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).