[WildTurkey]

Read page 17 of the Complaint. His telephone conversation about his fantasy of going down to the Caribbean with this woman is quoted word for word. If it were hearsay it would not be quoted as it is.

My question concerns the lack of quotes. Is this legally relevant to it being considered a direct quote?

For example, they will sometimes say that O'Reilly stated something and then put it in quotes. Other times they will not use quotes and put it in the indented paragraph format. I don't know.

[Catspaw]

The lawyer in the complaint against O'Reilly used block quotes. They're indented and single-spaced, as opposed to the body of the complaint, which is out to the margin and double-spaced. This style of block-quoting is also used when quoting from a case in a brief.