LIBEL AND SLANDER - QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE - FAIR COMMENT - BONA FIDE MISSTATEMENT OF FACT

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

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 to misstatements of fact even in the absence of malice. Judgment for the plaintiff. Washington Times Co. v. Bonner, (App. D. C. 1936) 86 F. (2d) 836.

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, LIBEL AND SLANDER - QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE - FAIR COMMENT - BONA FIDE MISSTATEMENT OF FACT, 35 Mich. L. Rev. 1185 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol35/iss7/20