Dickinson v. Cosby’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. · 1 Cal. 3d 20 - Kapellas v. Kofman · 41 Cal. 4th 1232 - Action Apartment Ass'n v. City of Santa Monica · 1 Cal. 5th 376 - Baral v. Schnitt
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“[w]hen a man is publicly accused of raping a woman and responds with a public statement claiming the accusation itself is false, it is reasonable that a member of the public hearing the statement would not think the denial means, 'I'm neither affirming nor denying that I raped her, but look at all this evidence challenging her credibility.' That the speaker making the denial is himself the accused rapist strongly implies that the denial includes a denial of the rape itself. Here, the speaker was the accused's attorney, speaking with presumed agency. We see no reason the result should be different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he rape allegations against Cosby were a subject of national attention and much public speculation. It would perhaps be unactionable opinion if an unrelated individual, with no actual knowledge of the rape, chatting in a public forum, were to say, 'Dickinson lied about the rape; after all, she told a different story in her book.' That may be unactionable opinion because it is based on disclosed facts and the speaker would not be presumed to be basing the opinion on anything else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are writing regarding the planned Good Morning America segment interviewing Janice Dickinson regarding the false and outlandish claims she made about Mr. Cosby in an Entertainment Tonight interview, asserting that he raped her in 1982 (the 'Story'). That Story is fabricated and is an outrageous defamatory lie.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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