Legal Opinion
Yancey v. Hamilton
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided September 7, 1989No. 88-SC-693-DGPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Chief Justice.
The principal issue to be decided on this appeal is whether the publishing of a remark that an individual was a “con artist” is absolutely privileged as a statement of opinion under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Movant Gregory Yancey sued respondents Fred Hamilton and The Kentucky Post and several of its employees in Boone Circuit Court for libel and invasion of privacy. The genesis of this action began with movant’s arrest for double murder. The Post ran a feature story about Yan-cey’s background as a “sidebar” to the news article about his…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Rosenblatt v. BaerSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Time, Inc. v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by37 opinions
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