Cox Enterprises, Inc. v. Bakin

Cooper, Judge.

We granted appellants’ application for interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in denying appellants’ motion for summary judgment in appellee’s suit for libel. This case involves 31 articles published in The Atlanta Journal & Constitution (“the newspapers”) over a two-year period after the death of Gregory Dozier at Clayton General Hospital.

Appellee, Dr. Grant Bakin, was the physician on duty in the emergency room when Dozier was brought to the hospital for serious injuries sustained in a fight, the most severe of which was a deep gash in his right arm…