materially false
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 279 U.S. 24 - Morimura, Arai & Co. v. Taback · 1929Most cited · 271 citing opinions
[M]ade and acquiesced in either with actual knowledge that it was incorrect, or with reckless indifference to the actual facts, without examining the available source of knowledge which lay at hand, and with no reasonable ground to believe that it was in fact correct.
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