Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Rudder
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 16, 1987No. 85-871PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is a petition for writ of mandamus or, in the alternative, petition for writ of prohibition. The petition arises in the context of a defamation case in which Dr. William H. Rudder sued Universal Communications Corporation (owners of WALA-TV in Mobile) and Glenda Webb (an investigative reporter for WALA). Dr. Rudder, a Mobile psychiatrist, filed a libel and invasion of privacy lawsuit against WALA and Webb, based upon television broadcasts on February 13 and 14, 1984, that dealt with the subject of abusive prescriptive drug practices. Part of those broadcasts included reports on an…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Pell v. ProcunierSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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