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" `An infallible test in determining whether a communication... is or is not privileged is to ask whether, if true, it is a matter of proper public interest in relation to that with which it is sought to associate it.'"Id
- in Paint Brush Corp. v. Neu, 1999 and 4 similar citations
Mill, On Liberty (Oxford: Blackwell, 1947), at 15; see also Milton, Areopagitia, in Prose Works (Yale, 1959), Vol. II, at 561. 20
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At the time of the Sullivan case, state courts in some other states had recognized a qualified privilege for defamatory and false statements concerning the public conduct of public officials.
- in The George Washington International Law Review and 3 similar citations
The difference between a qualified and an absolute privilege is that malice destroys the qualified privilege but does not affect the latter.
- in Waln v. Putnam, 1972 and 2 similar citations
An oft-cited statement of a like rule, which has been adopted by a number of state courts, 20 is found in the Kansas case 20
- in The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions and 2 similar citations
Arizona, California, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and West Virginia applied the actual malice test.
- in New York Times v. Sullivan at 50: Despite Criticism, the Actual Malice … and one similar citation
"Consequently, his" doings, his associates, the forces back of him, his support financial and otherwise in connection with the campaign, his goings and comings, all of these insofar as they might throw light upon the nature of the forces that were interesting themselves in such campaign were matters of legitimate public interest and concern.
- in Defamation, Public Officialdom and the Rosenblatt v. Baer Criteria-A … and one similar citation
Appeal And Error> 339 (6) Where notice of appeal was served more than 60 days after date of order denying new trial but within 60 days from the date of service of notice of such order, the appeal from the order is effectual.
The Supreme Court in New York Times cited ten cases that at least partially protected false and defamatory statements of fact in political debate.
- in The Defamed Reputation: Will Declaratory Judgment Bill Provide Vindication and one similar citation
—bestowing privileged status on a reprint of libel from another periodical about plaintiff, a modern day public figure who took charge of an election campaign on "a matter of great public moment," treating him as equivalent to a candidate for public office
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