Legal Opinion
Jennings v. Telegram-Tribune Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 25, 1985No. G000152PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CROSBY, J.
The superior court granted the motion for nonsuit of the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune and various individual defendants in a libel action, and plaintiff Ethan Jennings, Jr., appeals, We find the newspaper’s allegedly defamatory descriptions of Jennings’ federal tax prosecution sufficiently within the “literary license” of a newspaper reporting official proceedings that the so-called “fair report” privilege of Civil Code section 47, subdivision 4 was established as a matter of law on plaintiff’s evidence, and thus affirm.
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In April 1977 Ethan A. Jennings, Jr., a…
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