Legal Opinion
Yeagle v. Collegiate Times
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 27, 1998No. Record 971304PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lacy
In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court correctly dismissed a defamation action because the phrase at issue could not reasonably be interpreted as stating actual facts about the plaintiff as a matter of law.
*295Sharon D. Yeagle is employed as an assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As part of her responsibilities, she facilitated the participation of students in the 1996 Governor’s Fellows Program. The Collegiate Times, the University’s student newspaper, published an article describing the University’s successful…
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