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actual malice

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 379 U.S. 64 - Garrison v. State of Louisiana · 1964Most cited · 3,391 citing opinions

with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Express malice, or malice in fact. Gee v. Culver, 13 Or. 598, 11 Pac. 302.

Defined under Malice in Black's Law Dictionary.