Legal Opinion
Diesen v. Hessburg
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided May 11, 1990No. C2-88-1345PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POPOVICH, Chief Justice.
On November 15, 1981, the Duluth News-Tribune published three articles concerning battered women that were critical of the job performance of the Carlton County Attorney, Donald Diesen, in prosecuting domestic abuse. Diesen sued the News-Tribune, its executive editor, Thomas Daly, and the reporter who wrote the articles, John Hessburg, for libel. The jury found by special verdict the articles’ implication was substantially false, appellants published the articles with actual malice, and awarded Diesen $285,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. The trial…
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