I think that the Supreme Court rulings can go both ways. With the Sullivan case, they did not use his name when the newspaper was published, but comments about police behavior reflected on him. When Sullivan went to trial everything was fine, but when the court unanimously reversed the decision, he could not recover any damages in the case unless he proved that the newspaper published false information and without that proof his reputation was messed up. I believe with Kim Kardashian stating that it was a fake robbery, the court would dismiss the case unless she could provide evidence that the robbery wasn’t fake.
