Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Barnette v. Wilson

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 14, 1997No. 1960308-CERPublished

1Concurrence

I concur because of the way the question is presented:

"Is a person who publishes a slander at a press conference responsible for damages caused by the expected and intended repetition of the slander by the news media?"

By concurring, I am not agreeing that the repetition of the alleged defamatory information in a newspaper or on radio or television is a slander. I believe that if, with the intent tohave them published by radio, television, or newspaper, one presents defamatory statements to reporters from those media, the publication of the defamatory statements by those media is the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. First Independent Baptist Church of Arab v. SoutherlandSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979

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