Legal Opinion
Diversified Management, Inc. v. Denver Post, Inc.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided November 15, 1982No. 81SA491PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVIRA, Justice.
This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of defendants-appellees, The Denver Post and John Toohey, a Denver Post reporter, in a libel action brought by plain-, tiffs-appellants, Eugene DeWitt and Diversified Management, Inc. (DMI). Appellants’ contention is that the district court committed reversible error in a number of its instructions to the jury. We disagree.
This litigation arose' out of two articles written by Toohey and published by the Post on April 28 and May 12, 1974. The articles dealt with certain financial dealings of the appellants and described the…
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- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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