DEFAMATION - Duty of a plaintiff in a defamation suit; duty of a defendant where there is anything in a publication which would render the quoted part no longer defamatory
HELD:
"A plaintiff in a defamation suit needs to quote verbatim only that aspect of the publication that it alleges to be defamatory, and nothing more.
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