Legal Opinion
Verity v. USA TODAY
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided March 4, 2019No. Docket No. 45530PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBevan, Justice
I. NATURE OF THE CASE
This is a permissive appeal that presents a case of first impression regarding whether the tort of defamation by implication exists in Idaho. Respondent James Verity was a school teacher in Oregon who lost his teaching license after engaging in an inappropriate relationship with an eighteen-year-old female student, whom he coached at the local high school. He eventually obtained a teaching license in Idaho, and began teaching shortly thereafter. When he was forced to resign his teaching job in Idaho after USA TODAY, KTVB, KGW, Tami Tremblay, and Stephen Reilly published…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Rosenblatt v. BaerSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. HeppsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Wolston v. Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
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