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FAIRBANKS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. PITKA

No. 910.

445 P.2d 685 (1968)

FAIRBANKS PUBLISHING COMPANY, an Alaska Corporation, Appellant, v. Elizabeth B. PITKA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 7, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. McNealy, Anchorage, Dan Riviera, of Garvin, Ashley & Foster, Seattle, Wash., for appellant.

Robert A. Parrish, Patrick E. Murphy, Fairbanks, for appellee.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and RABINOWITZ, JJ.

OPINION

DIMOND, Justice.

This is a libel action arising from certain publications in appellant's newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. In 1961 a jury returned a verdict in appellee's favor for $6,000 compensatory damages, and $19,000 punitive damages. On appeal we reversed and remanded for a new trial. We held that the trial court had erred in failing to give an instruction on truth as a defense, in giving certain instructions on actual malice and punitive...

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