Cengage Advantage Books: Foundations of the Legal Environment of Business 3rd Edition by Marianne Jennings

Exercise 15

Jane Roper wrote a newspaper opinion editorial in which she referred to the football coach, Danny Grange, of the state's largest school as "an incompetent gasbag." Which of the following statements is correct?
A) The statement is defamation per se.
B) The statement is protected as opinion.
C) The statement is defamatory but Grange will need to prove that he is not a public figure.
D) The statement is defamatory but Grange will need to establish malice.