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CoreCivic, Inc. v. Candide Group, LLC

Ruling by

Sidney R. Thomas

Lower Court

USDC Northern District of California

Lower Court Judge

William H. Alsup

dissenting Judge(s)

Carlos T. Bea
Operator of private prisons' implied defamation theory failed because writer's articles could not reasonably be understood as implying that it detained children separated from their parents in its facilities.



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