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Carter Page v. Oath Inc.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Delaware, No. 79, 2021 · judgment January 19, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Does couching factual claims in qualified language and in the passive voice suffice to render them “true or substantially true” under the First Amendment relevant to defamation claims?
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Does the First Amendment require that the burden of proof to establish that statements are “false” be placed on a public-figure plaintiff in a defamation suit?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jeffrey Allen Standen
Hemmer DeFrank Wessels PLLC
For respondent
Elbert Lin
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Case
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Order
Order list, May 16, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 16 2022Petition DENIED.
- May 09 2022Brief amicus curiae of America First Legal Foundation filed. (Distributed)
- Apr 26 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
- Apr 25 2022Waiver of right of respondent Oath Inc. to respond filed.
- Apr 19 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 23, 2022)