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Angela Engle Horne v. WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 17-1483, 17-1613 · judgment June 18, 2018
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).
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Whether even if this Court elects not overrule Sullivan in its entirety, it should revise Sullivan’s “actual malice” rule so that this exacting standard does not apply to awards of actual damages in defamation cases brought by public officials or public figures and, instead, only applies to awards of punitive and presumed damages in such cases.
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Whether an unelected local public-school budget/finance director with no access to the public purse or public funds, no policy-making responsibilities, and no media duties, should have to forfeit substantial common law protections as to her individual reputation by being designated as a “public official” under the status prong of Rosenblatt v. Baer, 383 U.S. 75 (1966).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Richard Franklin Hawkins III
The Hawkins Law Firm, PC
For respondent
Conrad M. Shumadine
Willcox & Savage, P.C.
Proceedings
- Jan 07 2019Petition DENIED.
- Jan 03 2019Waiver of right of respondent WTVR, LLC, dba CBS6 to respond filed.
- Dec 19 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
- Nov 01 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 5, 2018)
- Sep 12 2018Application (18A260) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until November 1, 2018.
- Sep 07 2018Application (18A260) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 16, 2018 to November 1, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.