Legal Opinion
Yorty v. Chandler
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 15, 1970No. Civ. 35021PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FLEMING, J.
Libel action for $2,000,000 by Samuel W. Yorty against Otis Chandler, Los Angeles Times, The Times-Mirror Company (sued as Times Mirror Corporation), and Paul Conrad, in which plaintiff complains of a cartoon drawn by Conrad and published on the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times. The trial court ruled on demurrer that the cartoon was not defamatory and entered judgment for defendants.
The cartoon was published under the following circumstances: in mid-November 1968 Richard M. Nixon, having been elected President of the United States, was engaged in the selection of…
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