Limbach v. Reinbold’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A consideration of the following cases, City of Chicago v. Tribune Co., 307 Ill. 595 ; Sullivan v. Illinois Publishing & Printing Co., 186 Ill. App. 268 ; Herrick v. Tribune Co., 108 Ill. App. 244 , leads to the conclusion that the publication in question was not libelous. Printed and published criticism of an official, such as a village attorney, is not necessarily libelous, simply because it is unjust. To be actionable, a fair interpretation of it must bring about the conclusion that the one to whom the publication pertains may be hurt in some serious and substantial manner. “All good men in offices of public trust are, and should be, hypersensitive to unjustifiable derogatory criticism; and that they generally are is evidence of their anxiety that the truth alone should be known and published; nevertheless, the law having regard to what is efficacious and practical, as well as to what is right and true, does not shield them, at least in political campaigns, from all that hurts, but only from that which being untrue, tends quite directly to material and substantial harm.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 252 Ill. App. 61 - McDonald v. Chicago Daily News Publishing Co.