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LOCRICCHIO v. EVENING NEWS ASS'N

Docket No. 86351, (Calendar No. 10).

438 Mich. 84 (1991)

476 N.W.2d 112

LOCRICCHIO v. EVENING NEWS ASSOCIATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Jeremiah J. Kenney and Pamela Hobbs), for the plaintiffs.

Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile (by Richard E. Rassel, James E. Stewart, Gordon J. Walker, and Leonard M. Niehoff) for the defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (by Herschel P. Fink and Michael A. Gruskin) for Detroit Free Press, Inc., and Scripps Howard Broadcasting.

Dawn L. Phillips for Michigan Press Association.

Kasiborski, Ronayne & Flaska, P.C. (by John J. Ronayne, III), for Michigan Association of Broadcasters and Post-Newsweek Stations, Michigan, Inc.

Neal Bush, Monica Farris Linkner, and Charles P. Burbach for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

BRICKLEY, J.

Two competing legal regimes collide in libel cases implicating First Amendment concerns. Libel law enforces society's "pervasive and strong interest in preventing and redressing attacks upon reputation" caused by false and defamatory statements,1 while constitutional law safeguards the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest that lie at "the heart of the First Amendment's protection."

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