Legal Opinion
Browning v. Birmingham News
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 10, 1977PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff-appellant, Landon Browning filed a libel suit against the Birmingham News Company, its publisher, Clarence Hanson, and a staff writer, Tom Bailey. These defendants will be referred to at times in this opinion as the News defendants. Also joined as defendants in the suit were the City of Tarrant and its mayor, Evan Veal, who will be referred to as the Tarrant defendants. Both the News defendants and the Tarrant defendants filed motions to dismiss.
The News defendants filed an affidavit by Tom Bailey, the author of the article in question, which in essence stated that no statement in…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Barr v. MatteoSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Rosenblatt v. BaerSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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