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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Apr. 16, 2008

Hidden in Plain Sight

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - 'Hebrew Academy' and two other recent cases make up an unusual cluster of California appellate opinions discussing the single-publication rule in defamation cases.

FOCUS COLUMN

By David A. Gerber
This article appears on Page 7

      In the joke, a rabbi and two like-minded men of faith toddle into a drinking establishment. In Hebrew Academy of San Francisco v. Goldman, 7 DJDAR 18915 (Dec. 26, 2007), the plaintiff/rabbi encountered a different type of bar, and it was neither funny nor fun. His claim of having been defamed in a minimally distributed oral history interview was he...

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