Sophianopoulos v. McCormick

Birdsong, Judge.

Appellant Sophianopoulos appeals from the grant of summary judgment to appellee McCormick on a complaint for libel. Appellant alleged that McCormick published defamatory statements challenging his professional competence in a letter to the Associate Secretary of the American Association of University Professors (“AAUP”), Mr. Knight. At the time of the alleged libel, the appellant was an associate professor in the Biochemistry Department of the Emory University School of Medicine and the appellee was the Chairman of the Department.

The record shows that the appellant made…