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Yorty v. Chandler, 13 Cal.App.3d 467 (1970), was a decision by the California Court of Appeals, 2nd District involving how strictly an editorial cartoon needed to be interpreted in lawsuits for libel. It is a significant decision in the case law of applying the First Amendment to editorial cartoons and has been cited as a persuasive authority by other U.S. courts.

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  • Yorty v. Chandler, 13 Cal.App.3d 467 (1970), was a decision by the California Court of Appeals, 2nd District involving how strictly an editorial cartoon needed to be interpreted in lawsuits for libel. It is a significant decision in the case law of applying the First Amendment to editorial cartoons and has been cited as a persuasive authority by other U.S. courts. (en)
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  • Compton (en)
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  • Samuel W. Yorty, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Otis Chandler et al., Defendants and Respondents. (en)
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  • Defamation (en)
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  • Yorty v. Chandler (en)
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  • Editorial cartoons necessarily use "rhetorical hyperbole" to communicate and if no reasonable person would understand the meaning conveyed by the cartoon literally then literal readings of the cartoon cannot be used as the basis of a libel action. (en)
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  • Yorty v. Chandler, 13 Cal.App.3d 467 (1970), was a decision by the California Court of Appeals, 2nd District involving how strictly an editorial cartoon needed to be interpreted in lawsuits for libel. It is a significant decision in the case law of applying the First Amendment to editorial cartoons and has been cited as a persuasive authority by other U.S. courts. (en)
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  • Yorty v. Chandler (en)
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