Zachary Michael Lee v. the State of Texas

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• considering whether the plaintiff “maintained regular and continuing access to the media”
• “A public ‘controversy’ is any topic upon which sizeable segments of society have different, strongly held views.”
• plaintiff must “plunge into the arena and enter the fray” of the controversy at issue
• plaintiff must have \successfully invited public attention to his views in an effort to influence others\
• \The essential inquiry is whether those in charge of[ defendant distributor] had serious doubts about the accuracy of the identification ... \
• plaintiff was limited purpose public figure in case involving mislabeled nude photos because she had “voluntarily devot[ed] herself to the public’s interest in sexual mores, through extensive writing on this topic”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).