# MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co.

> California Supreme Court · August 3, 1959 · 52 Cal. 2d 536

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9605439

## Case

- **Full name:** GROVER MacLEOD, Appellant, v. TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. (A Corporation), Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 3, 1959
- **Citations:** 52 Cal. 2d 536; 343 P.2d 36; 1959 Cal. LEXIS 228
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Spence
- **Judges:** Traynor, McComb, Spence
- **Cited by:** 157 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- applying actual malice standard to claim that report implied that the plaintiff was a Communist sympathizer

## Opinion text

SPENCE, J.
I dissent. In view of plaintiff’s concession in the trial court that the People’s World had, as stated in defendant’s article, “printed a list of recommendations which included the name of plaintiff,” I am in agreement with the conclusion reached by Mr. Justice McComb that the judgment should be affirmed.
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied August 31, 1959. Peters, J., did not participate therein. Spence, J., and McComb, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.

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