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Master's Defamation Of His Servant, Charles A. Caruso
Master's Defamation Of His Servant, Charles A. Caruso
Cleveland State Law Review
The question now arises, as it does so frequently when one right must be held in balance against another, is one's right to unconditionally utter any statement he so wishes subservient to another's right to a reputation free from the impairments of defamation? The question has lost its youth along with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution; yet the decisions and authority, as to which right is the more fundamental and which should be subrogated to which, are still widely divided.
Libelous Ridicule By Journalists, James M. Naughton, Eric R. Gilbertson
Libelous Ridicule By Journalists, James M. Naughton, Eric R. Gilbertson
Cleveland State Law Review
Proof of actual malice, or even establishing that an attack in ridicule bears no relation to public conduct, seems at best, extremely difficult to bring out. The public interest in protecting itself, through criticism of those in prominence, weighs much more heavily on the scales of justice than does the interest of public figures in protecting themselves from personal attack. So go ahead and draw your cartoons, Conrad. Keep sticking pins in the kewpie dolls of America, Art Buchwald. And tell it like it is, Pogo.
How Far May Newspapers Go In Criticizing, Richard Szilagyi
How Far May Newspapers Go In Criticizing, Richard Szilagyi
Cleveland State Law Review
Any written or printed article which is false and is conveyed by publication to third parties is defamatory or "libelous." That is, it is actionable if it tends to subject the plaintiff to hatred, scorn, ridicule, public contempt or disgrace; or if it induces a substantial number of respectable community members to avoid, shun, or deprive him of their friendly association, even though the defamation imputes no moral turpitude to him. Despite a long history of judicial decisions and numerous discussions and writings by the legal profession, there are few areas of the law so unsettled as the law of …
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Cleveland State Law Review
Since the sixteenth century courts of law have held that an individual may bring an action for damages for libel or slander. When corporations came into their own, occasions arose where the question of a corporation's right to bring suit for libel or slander had to be decided. The first cases centered discussion on whether a corporation could sue on the basis of similarity to a natural person (an individual) or to an artificial person (an entity). While courts long have made a distinction between the artificial and the natural person, the law has been established that, like an individual, …
Newspaper Libel, Marcus D. Gleisser
Newspaper Libel, Marcus D. Gleisser
Cleveland State Law Review
Cases to be cited below in this article will show that libel's line of danger in many instances is vague even to legal experts with specialized training and ample time for research and meditation. For journalists in their ceaseless race against time, and harried by competition, perforce relying on many sources for valuable information, the phantom of libel can be most troublesome.