Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Metromedia, Inc. v. April Enterprises, Inc.
Metromedia, Inc. v. April Enters., Inc., 492 U.S. 918 (1989)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1989-07-03
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that corporate defendant, as an "unwilling conduit," could not be held vicariously liable for acts of individual defendants
- Liquid Air inapplicable where each predicate act did not cause separate harm to plaintiff
- Liquid Air not applicable where each predicate act did not cause separate harm
- initiative petition process is "core political speech" protected by the First Amendment
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 69 opinions
Ct. App. Cal., 2d App. Dist. Certiorari denied.