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Libel - Right Of Privacy -Auction Sale Of Debts, Gerald M. Stevens
Libel - Right Of Privacy -Auction Sale Of Debts, Gerald M. Stevens
Michigan Law Review
A creditor put his claim into the hands of one Power, who held himself out as an advertiser of accounts for sale. Power threatened several times by letter to advertise the debtor's account for sale at auction unless it was paid immediately. No payment was made; and a "flaming orange handbill" was printed and circulated about the debtor's neighborhood. It offered for sale to the highest bidder the debtor's and twenty-three other accounts. It contained, further, the statement that all accounts were guaranteed correct and undisputed and a solicitation for merchants' accounts to be similarly disposed of. Thereupon the debtor …
Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White
Constitutional Law - Protection Of Freedom Of Speech Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Jack L. White
Michigan Law Review
The appellant, a negro member of the Communist Party, was engaged in work as a paid party organizer in Atlanta in 1932. Shortly after leading a hunger march of unemployed he was arrested, and was tried and convicted under a state statute, enacted in the Reconstruction Period, which made criminal "any attempt, by persuasion or otherwise, to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the lawful' authority of the State." At the time of his arrest the appellant had in his possession evidence of his organization activities and also a quantity of party literature, but there was no …
Libel And Slander - Qualified Privilege - Fair Comment - Bona Fide Misstatement Of Fact, Michigan Law Review
Libel And Slander - Qualified Privilege - Fair Comment - Bona Fide Misstatement Of Fact, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A newspaper publisher reported in his papers the filing by a certain person, with executive officers of the United States, of charges that a federal employee had removed certain documents from files over which he had supervision. The filed charges were "greatly enlarged and embellished upon" by the publisher, so that the statements made in the paper amounted in themselves to charges by the publisher against the employee. There were no allegations of malice in the subsequent suit by the employee against the publisher. Held, that the right of fair comment upon matters of public interest does not extend …
Wills - Probate - Deletion Of Libelous Matter, Michigan Law Review
Wills - Probate - Deletion Of Libelous Matter, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
In propounding the will of the testator for probate, the executor petitioned the surrogate court to exclude from probate certain non-dispositive matter therein, which if published during the testator's lifetime, would have supported an action for libel. Held, that the court had power to exclude the objectionable matter from probate, since it was not properly a part of the will. In re Draske's Will, 290 N. Y. S. 581 (Surr. Ct. 1936).
Libel And Slander-Necessity For Allegation Of Special Damages In Action For Defamation Not Shown Libellous Per Se, Elbridge D. Phelps
Libel And Slander-Necessity For Allegation Of Special Damages In Action For Defamation Not Shown Libellous Per Se, Elbridge D. Phelps
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a member of the bar, sued to recover damages for an alleged libel committed by defendant by maliciously failing to rate him in its annual directory, though continuing to carry his name, after having both carried his name and rated him for many years previously. Held, that the publication was not libellous per se, and that therefore special damages beyond a general allegation of injury to professional reputation, business, and practice must be alleged and proved to show a cause of action on demurrer. Ellsworth v. Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc., (N. D. 1936) 268 N. W. 400.
Torts - Right Of Privacy - Newsreel As Violation Of, Royal E. Thompson
Torts - Right Of Privacy - Newsreel As Violation Of, Royal E. Thompson
Michigan Law Review
Section 51 of the New York Civil Rights Law provides that: "Any person whose name, portrait or picture is used . . . for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained . . . may maintain an equitable action . . . to prevent and restrain the use thereof; and may also sue and recover damages for any injuries sustained by reason of such use . . . . " Held, publication by defendant of a newsreel showing plaintiff and other stout women exercising in a gymnasium with the aid of unique …
Contempt - Suppression Order - Publication Of Contents Of Suppressed File, Milton M. Howard
Contempt - Suppression Order - Publication Of Contents Of Suppressed File, Milton M. Howard
Michigan Law Review
On a bill of complaint being filed in chancery court an injunction was issued against the defendant therein, and the papers in the cause were ordered suppressed by the chancellor, and to that end, sealed in an envelope. The bill alleged misrepresentation on the part of a leading banker in getting stockholders to contribute toward making up the defalcations of other officers in the bank and malfeasance of other officers. Defendant newspaper reporter obtained information relative to the allegations in the bill from sources other than the suppressed file and published the same nine months later. Upon citation for contempt, …
Negligence- Liability Of Telephone Company For Failure To Complete Subscriber's Call, Michigan Law Review
Negligence- Liability Of Telephone Company For Failure To Complete Subscriber's Call, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, father and administrator of the estate of a seven year old child, brought suit, under the Death Act, alleging that defendant's negligent failure to connect him with the family physician was the proximate cause of the death of the child. Held, by a majority of the court, that there was no liability, because the deceased, had she lived, would have had no cause of action on these facts. Emery v. Rochester Telephone Corporation, 271 N. Y. 306, 3 N. E. (2d) 434 (1936).