Brown v. Akron Beacon Journal Publishing Co.

Cacioppo, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Clifford F. Brown, is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. On October 21, 1987, he filed a civil action, pro se, in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas against defendants-appellees, the Akron Beacon Journal Publishing Company and reporter Mary Grace Poidomani (collectively “Beacon Journal”). The complaint for libel and slander alleged that an article written by Poidomani, dated October 26,1986, was false and defamatory. Justices Andy Douglas and Robert E. Holmes were also named as defendants on the grounds that they supplied false information…