Hudson v. WLOX, Inc.

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. The Mississippi Supreme Court has held pre-suit written notice is a prerequisite to filing a defamation suit against a television station.1 The aggrieved person must specify in his or her pre-suit notice letter (1) the particular telecast and (2) statements in the telecast alleged to be false and defamatory.2 Here, Gerald Heath Hudson (Heath) and Arthur Gerald Hudson (Gerald) sued WLOX, a Mississippi television station, for defamation. The Hudsons’ pre-suit notice letter specified two telecasts and alleged WLOX “ran a fictitious story” making three false…