Legal Opinion
Schlegel v. Ottumwa Courier
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided October 21, 1998No. 96-1040PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVORATO, Justice.
A lawyer and his wife won substantial verdicts for compensatory damages against a newspaper publisher and editor-in-chief for incorrectly reporting that the lawyer had declared bankruptcy. In addition, the jury assessed punitive damages against the two defendants. The district court set aside the compensatory damage award as excessive and granted the defendants’ motion for new trial. The court also granted the defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) on the punitive damage award. The plaintiffs appeal from these rulings. They also challenge the…
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