Legal Opinion
McCoy v. Hearst Corp.
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 1, 1991No. A045724PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HANING, J.
Appellants, two police officers and an assistant district attorney, obtained judgments in their libel actions against respondents—a newspaper and two of its reporters. The California Supreme Court reversed the judgments without directions, for insufficiency of the evidence, and the *1659trial court then entered judgment for respondents and dismissed the actions. The sole issue on appeal is whether the unqualified reversal for insufficiency of the evidence entitles appellants to a retrial. We conclude it does not.
History
Appellants based this defamation action on a series of…
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