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Eugene Volokh

Saying Co-Worker "Looked Like a Homeless Prostitute" Is Opinion, Can't Be Defamation

So Magistrate Judge Maria Aguilera (D. Ariz.) correctly concluded today in Sanchez v. Flores:

[A]s alleged, the statement was nonactionable hyperbole. The words "looked like" in particular "tend to negate the implication that [the statement] convey[ed] objective facts."

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