Legal Opinion
Gannett Co., Inc. v. Kanaga
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided May 3, 2000No. 352, 1998PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALSH, Justice for the majority:
This is an appeal from a Superior Court judgment in a libel action following a jury verdict assessing damages. The plaintiff-appellee, Margo Kanaga, M.D. (“Dr. Kana-ga”) claimed to have been libeled by a newspaper account of her treatment of a former patient, Pamela Kane (“Kane”). *1178The article in question was written by Jane Harriman (“Harriman”) and published in a daily newspaper distributed by Harriman’s employer, Gannett Co., Inc. t/a The News Journal Company (“Gannett”). Gannett and Harriman (collectively the “media defendants”) defended the article as a…
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