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18-1477 Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia 2019-05-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech opinion provably-false public-concern public-figure question-of-law-or-fact subjective-commentary Under the First Amendment, "a statement of opinion relating to matters of public concern which does not contain a provably false factual connotation w…
18-1451 National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia 2019-05-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion Under Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps, 475 U.S. 767 (1986), and Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990), a plaintiff seeking to impo…