Legal Opinion
Angela Horne v. WTVR, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 18, 2018No. 17-1483; 17-1613PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD, Circuit Judge:
On February 13, 2015, WTVR, LLC ("WTVR") aired a news story about a county school system hiring a felon in violation of a Virginia state law. The news story implied that the felon lied about a prior criminal conviction on a job application, thereby committing a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, Angela Engle Horne, the unidentified felon in question, had disclosed her prior felony on her job application for the Director of Budget & Finance for the county school system, and Dr. Bobby Browder, the then-superintendent, knew of her felony conviction when he hired her.
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