False implications in news reports

1. Whether an appellate court conducting independent review under Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union, 466 U.S. 485 (1984), may classify a private citizen as a public figure under Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), based on (1) being an affiant in civil litigation, (2) information attributed to Petitioner's website without evidence it was there at publication, or (3) post-publication communications to the publisher. 2. Whether Sullivan and Harte-Hanks permit summary judgment on actual malice where a national media corporation, before publication, possessed contradictory public records while routing corrective communications containing exculpatory facts away from their intended newsroom recipients; and whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state appellate court to deem that purposeful-avoidance issue under Harte-Hanks forfeited solely because the trial court failed to rule, after a plaintiff presented it before judgment and renewed it through the state's prescribed procedure for obtaining an omitted ruling. 3. Whether, under Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990), and Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986), a court may remove a defamation-by-implication claim from the jury by applying state-law opinion or substantial-truth labels to isolated words, without determining whether a news publication reasonably conveys a provably false factual implication, where the record contains unrebutted evidence that disinterested readers understood the defamatory implication.