Legal Opinion
Little v. Consolidated Publishing Co.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 13, 2011No. 2090705PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Application for Rehearing
2Per curiam
This court’s opinion of December 3, 2010, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.
Benjamin L. Little appeals from a summary judgment entered by the Calhoun Circuit Court (“the trial court”) in favor of Consolidated Publishing Company (“CPC”) and Megan Nichols.
The evidence the parties submitted in support of, and in opposition to, Nichols and CPC’s motion for a summary judgment tended to show the following. Little, a Christian minister, has been an Anniston city councilman since his election in 2000. In early 2007, Little, acting on the…
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