DACEY

v.

COTTER ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (21 total)

• The Church OF Scientology OF Cal. v. Lionel Blackman, M.D., 446 So. 2d 190 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984)
  …d to defamation actions involving public officials and public figures, that the New York Times standard of actual malice is applicable to both media and nonmedia defendants. To like effect are: Avins v. White, 627 F. 2d 637 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 982, 101 S.Ct. 398, 66 L.Ed.2d 244 (1980) (former law school dean suing member of accreditation team which investigated the school); Woy v. Turner, 533 F.Supp. 102 (N.D.Ga.1981) (agent of ball player suing team owner); Antwerp Diamond Exch. v. Better Bu…
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, 750 F.2d 970 (D.C. Cir. 1984)
  …t held that the statement that a reporter had engaged in “sloppy and irresponsible reporting” and had poor reporting technique was too “imprecise” to support a defamation action.21 Similarly, in Avins v. White, 627 F. 2d 637 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 982, 101 S.Ct. 398, 66 L.Ed.2d 244 (1982), the former dean of a law school claimed that his academic ability and performance had been falsely disparaged in the summary evaluation of the school’s first accreditation report. The summary bluntly stated: “[…

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• RKO Gen., Inc. v. Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n, 670 F.2d 215 (D.C. Cir. 1981)
  …measured”); Straus Communications, Inc. v. FCC, 530 F. 2d 1001, 1011 (D.C.Cir.1976) (“The licensee’s violation, then, consisted fundamentally in failing to predict the new interpretation”); AFL-CIO v. FEC, 628 F. 2d 97, 101 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 982, 101 S.Ct. 397, 66 L.Ed.2d 244 (1980) (“uncertainty as to the meaning of the law can be considered in assessing the element of willfulness in a violation of the law”). . In the original KHJ-TV proceeding in Los Angeles, the Commission had found tha…