Zeran v. Diamond Broadcasting, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “that the district court’s own view of extra-judicial conduct, which the law does not recognize as legally actionable, should play no part in the district court’s decision whether to override the presumption that the prevailing party receives costs”
• distinguishing defamation from false light invasion of privacy by noting that in a defamation action recovery is sought primarily for injury to one’s reputation while in a false light action it is the injury to the person's own feelings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).