Legal Opinion
Lucas v. Cranshaw
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 6, 2008No. A07A2069PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Phipps, Judge.
John Lucas and Antebellum Builders, Inc. (ABI) brought this action against David Cranshaw and a newspaper he edits known as Buyers’ Guide & News (Buyers’ Guide), seeking damages on theories of libel and libel per se. Lucas and ABI appeal the trial court’s grant of the Cranshaw defendants’ motion for summary judgment on both issues. We find no error and affirm.
On appeal from the grant of summary judgment this Court conducts a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there is a genuine issue of material fact and whether the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most…
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- Mathews v. ATLANTA NEWSPAPERS INC.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1967
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