Legal Opinion
Rosenaur v. Scherer
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 5, 2001No. C032607, C033331PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KOLKEY, J.
Introduction
Following a bitterly fought local initiative campaign concerning the commercial development of certain real property in Loomis, plaintiff David Rosenaur sued his political opponents—defendants Walt Scherer, Lorell Long, Walt Scherer For Town Council, and the Loomis Community Action Committee—for defamation and slander of title. The suit was based on a heated exchange at a shopping center in which one of the defendants purportedly called plaintiff a “thief’ and on statements in defendants’ campaign literature that the property at issue was owned by “a partnership…
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