Ray v. American Legion Auxiliary

Blackburn, Judge.

Joyce Ray appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of American Legion Auxiliary (Auxiliary) in her defamation suit. Ray alleges that at the Auxiliary’s statewide convention in 1992, she was slandered by two individual Auxiliary members, Frances Allen and Lell Young.1 At the time of the incident, Ray was both an Auxiliary member and president of a local Auxiliary chapter. Following the meeting at which Ray alleges she was slandered, she was banned from membership in the Auxiliary, and the charter for the chapter of which she was president was revoked.…