Kutz v. Independent Publishing Co.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WALTERS, Chief Judge.
Defendants, a weekly newspaper and its publisher and editor, published an almost-full page article criticizing the content of a particular issue of another weekly newspaper. Near the end of defendants’ article appeared a paragraph which is the genesis of this appeal. It reads:
Then for the encore, the News actually printed a piece by rabid environmentalist Jack Kutz, who used to send us letters so violent we turned them over to the police.
Kutz filed a “Complaint in Libel” alleging in Count I that the comments were “libelous per se, and wholly untrue.” In Count II,…
Also in this document: Concurrence.
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- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
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- Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. AustinSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
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