Legal Opinion

Gooch v. Maryland Mechanical Systems, Inc.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland

Decided January 4, 1990No. 1834, September Term, 1988Published

1Opinion of the Court

81 Md. App. 376 (1990)

567 A.2d 954

JOHN B. GOOCH

v.

MARYLAND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, INC., ET AL.

No. 1834, September Term, 1988.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 4, 1990.

Raymond Rabin, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Robert J. Proutt (Anne T. Kelly and Rosenberg Proutt Funk & Greenberg, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before GARRITY, ALPERT and POLLITT[*], JJ.

GARRITY, Judge.

Over the years, commentators, as well as the judiciary, have attempted to unravel the imbroglio of defamation law as it has developed through early English common law. As one commentator noted:

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Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.

2Cases cited47 opinions

  1. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Secretary of State of Md. v. Joseph H. Munson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971

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