Collins v. Storer Communications, Inc.

John C. Cardinal, Judge.

The plaintiff hotel and hotel owner appeal 1 from a jury trial judgment for the defendant television station and news broadcasters on their libel claim for broadcasts which alleged that the plaintiffs discriminated against black customers. The plaintiffs in their three assignments of error claim that the trial court erred in granting the defendants’ pretrial motions in limine for the exclusion of evidence showing (1) that the hotel had not discriminated against certain black customers, (2) anti-Italian bias on the part of the defendants, and (3) the findings of a local…