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0585 Rhetorical phrases contained in defendant's letter to the editor and published on an op-ed page were so obviously expressions of opinion that the reasonable reader would not have regarded them as assertions of fact and, therefore, they could not be the basis for defamation liability.



RUDNICK v MCMILLAN (Tumbleweed) 25 CA4 1183 [See: Baker v LA Herald Examiner 42 C3 254; NY Times v Sullivan 376 US 254; Gertz v Robert Welch 418 US 323]


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