Legal Opinion
Aisenson v. American Broadcasting Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 10, 1990No. B034145PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BOREN, J.
In 1984, appellant David J. Aisenson filed a lawsuit for slander and invasion of privacy against respondents American Broadcasting Company, Inc., its Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV, and four KABC-TV employees (collectively, ABC). The lawsuit arose from ABC’s broadcast of a series of television news special reports discussing the results of an opinion poll it had conducted. The poll elicited local attorneys’ opinions on the performance of Los Angeles Superior Court criminal law judges. ABC reported that appellant, then a superior court judge, had received the lowest ratings of…
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