Bauer v. Ribaudo

CRANDALL, Judge.

Plaintiff, Thomas E. Bauer, appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment on his defamation action. We affirm.

The case comes to this court for the second time. Bauer v. Ribaudo, 926 S.W.2d 38 (Mo. App. E.D.1996). Bauer was a candidate for state representative in the August 2, 1994 Democratic primary for the 65th district in the City of St. Louis. Id. at 40. Defendant, Anthony D. Ribaudo, was the incumbent.1 Ribaudo and the other defendant, Roman Zegel Communications, Inc., produced a television commercial about Bauer that was aired on St. Louis television stations.…