Legal Opinion
Pease v. Telegraph Publishing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided February 23, 1981No. 80-059PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
This is an appeal from a jury verdict for the plaintiff in his libel suit against the defendants, Telegraph Publishing Company, Inc., and Philip Grandmaison. The case concerned a letter to the editor submitted by Grandmaison and published in the Nashua Telegraph, a newspaper owned by Telegraph Publishing Company, Inc.
During the first part of a bifurcated trial the jury determined that the plaintiff was a public figure. The plaintiff does not appeal that finding, and he therefore must be deemed a public figure on appeal. In the second part of the trial, the jury returned a verdict of ten…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. BreslerSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. AustinSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert NovakCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1984
- Henry v. HalliburtonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1985
- Duchesnaye v. Munro Entersprises, Inc.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1984
- Godfrey v. Perkin-Elmer Corp.District Court, D. New Hampshire · 1992
- Nash v. Keene Publishing Corp.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1985
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