Legal Opinion
Finkelstein v. Albany Herald Publishing Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 12, 1990No. A90A0037PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Banke, Presiding Judge.
This is a libel action filed by Albany attorney James Norman Finkelstein against The Albany Herald Publishing Company, Inc., to recover damages for certain allegedly defamatory statements made about him in a newspaper article dealing with his views on the manner in which the Dougherty County District Attorney’s office was being run. The case is before us on appeal from the grant of the defendant publisher’s motion for summary judgment.
The article appeared in the December 6, 1987, edition of The Albany Sunday Herald. It was headed, “MAVERICK LAWYER CHARGES DA WITH ‘LACK…
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