SCOTTSDALE PUB., INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 1 CA-SA 178.

159 Ariz. 72 (1988)

764 P.2d 1131

SCOTTSDALE PUBLISHING, INC., an Arizona corporation, Jonathan and Maxine Marshall, and Don Devereux and Niomi Devereux, Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF the State of Arizona, In and For the COUNTY OF MARICOPA, Honorable Marilyn A. Riddel, a judge thereof, Respondent Judge, Roy ROMANO, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department D.

Review Denied December 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown & Bain, P.A. by Paul F. Eckstein, David J. Bodney, and Daniel C. Barr, Phoenix, for petitioners.

Marton & Hall, P.A. by Kraig J. Marton and Sarah J. Odneal, Phoenix, for real party in interest.


OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

Roy Romano, a publicly self-acknowledged former hoodlum and organized crime enforcer, sues Scottsdale Publishing, Inc., the owner of the Scottsdale Progress, for damaging his reputation by linking him to the Don Bolles bombing in a series of newspaper articles in the summer of 1984. He also sues Jonathan Marshall, the Progress publisher, who wrote one of the articles, Don Devereux, the reporter who wrote two of the articles, and the spouses...

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