Stalvey v. Atlanta Business Chronicle, Inc.

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Thomas Stalvey (plaintiff) brought a defamation action against The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Inc. (defendant), alleging defendant published a statement in defendant’s magazine which tended to “injure [his] reputation and to expose [him] to public hatred, contempt, and ridicule. . . .” More specifically, plaintiff alleged “the entire libelous article . . .” inferred that he was either an accomplice to sexual assaults or that he obstructed police investigations of the assaults. Plaintiff also alleged that as the proximate result of defendant publishing the defamatory…