Yow v. National Enquirer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the defamatory statement does not need to refer to the plaintiff by name, as long as the plaintiff \may be identified by clear implication\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the defamatory statement does not need to refer to the plaintiff by name, as long as the plaintiff \may be identified by clear implication\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[i]n a defamation action the threshold question is whether the statement on which plaintiff’s claim is based, specifically refers to, or is ‘of and concerning’ plaintiff in some way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).