Karam v. McElroy

This proceeding was begun in the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County, Ohio, by the filing of a petition in which Joseph D. Karam, appellant herein, was plaintiff, and Mark McElroy, appellee herein, was defendant, seeking compensatory damages in the amount of $400,000 and punitive damages of $100,000, or a total of $500,000 damages. Karam, who alleges he is an attorney-at-law and was an assistant attorney general and that McElroy was the Attorney General of Ohio, sets forth in his petition statements claimed to have been published in The Columbus Dispatch, a newspaper published in Co…