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AMCOR INV. v. COX ARIZ. PUBLICATIONS

No. 2 CA-CV 88-0157.

158 Ariz. 566 (1988)

764 P.2d 327

AMCOR INVESTMENT CORPORATION, a California corporation, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. COX ARIZONA PUBLICATIONS INC., a Delaware corporation; Max Jennings and Carol Jennings, Defendants/Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 2, Department B.

Review Denied December 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goldstein, Kingsley & Myres, Ltd. by Philip T. Goldstein, Phoenix, for plaintiff/appellant.

Brown & Bain by Robert E.B. Allen, David J. Bodney, and Michael W. Patten, Phoenix, for defendants/appellees.

OPINION

CHARLES E. ARES, Judge Pro Tem.* This libel case requires us to determine whether an entire newspaper column is absolutely protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

On December 21, 1986, Max Jennings, the executive editor of the Mesa Tribune, published the following column on the editorial page of the newspaper1

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