Legal Opinion
Riley v. Moyed
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided June 25, 1987PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORSEY, Justice:
In this action for libel, plaintiff, John S. Riley, appeals Superior Court’s grant of defendants’, Gannett Company, Inc., owner of The Morning News, and writer Ralph S. Moyed, motion for summary judgment. We affirm.
The alleged libel was contained in Moyed’s column published in Wilmington, Delaware in the Morning News on November 18, 1983. In the column, Moyed accused certain New Castle County politicians of allowing the zoning process in the County to degenerate into private battles between commercial interests and criticized several politicians for their ties with special…
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