Cox Enterprises, Inc. v. Thrasher

Hunstein, Justice.

Corlis Thrasher brought a defamation suit against Cox Enter prises and two of its employees, an editor and a writer, for the publication of a newspaper article which she alleged implied that she, a married woman, had contracted chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, and that such was due to her promiscuity. The trial court held that although the article could reasonably be read to imply Thrasher had suffered from chlamydia, she had failed to meet her burden of proving the falsity of the statements in the article and granted summary judgment to defendants. The Court of…