Legal Opinion
Beeton v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 30, 2001No. 95-CV-1101PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REID, Associate Judge:
In this case, appellants, Mrs. Brenda Beeton and her husband Mr. Dennis Beeton, employees of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (“DOC”), 1 challenge the trial judge’s decision in favor of appellees, the District of Columbia (“the District”), Leon Hammond, and Vincent Gibbons, on their claims for defamation, loss of consortium, and wrongful discharge. Mrs. Beeton argues that the trial court erroneously concluded that: (1) she was a public official and therefore had to prove actual malice to prevail on her defamation claim, and (2) the unliquidated damages…
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