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In a statement from her home in Paris, Dame Olivia said: “We must persevere and speak truth to power.”
“The fight is itself important to the principle of honesty, so much in need today in the face of deliberate public confusion for selfish agendas.”
The question presented for Supreme Court review is:
“Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection from claims based on the victim’s statutory and common law causes of action for defamation and right of publicity, so as to justify dismissal at the pleading stage?”
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“Dame Olivia, who won Oscars for 1946’s To Each His Own and 1949’s The Heiress, previously won a landmark victory over Warner Bros in 1943 which effectively ended actors’ contract servitude.”
Olivia with her outstanding attorney, Suzelle M. Smith:
— Tim
