Legal Opinion
McCoy v. Hearst Corp.
California Supreme Court
Decided November 13, 1986No. S.F. 24967PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BIRD, C. J.
Do the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and California Constitution article I, section 2, protect two reporters and a newspaper against a libel judgment when they obtained and published a prisoner’s affidavit containing allegations of official misconduct on the part of two police inspectors and a prosecutor?
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A suit for libel was brought against the Hearst Corporation, which owns the San Francisco Examiner (hereafter Examiner), and two reporters, Raul Ramirez and Lowell Bergman, by respondents, San Francisco Police Inspectors Frank McCoy and Edward Erdelatz,…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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3Cited by52 opinions
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