Legal Opinion
Price v. Walters
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 21, 1996No. 78483PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMMS, Justice.
William S. Price, Candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket in the 1990 election, brought a defamation action against David Lee Walters, the Democrat Candidate, and Don Hoover, Walter’s media assistant, three weeks prior to the general election. This action arose from a press release issued by Walters and Hoover some eight days prior to the filing of the defamation action.
The trial judge sustained defendants’ motion for summary judgment for the reason the press release was privileged under the provisions of 12 O.S.1991, § 1443.1, infra. Plaintiff Price timely perfected…
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