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KIDDER v. ANDERSON

No. 59988.

354 So.2d 1306 (1978)

Howard A. KIDDER, Plaintiff-Appellee-Respondent, v. Bob ANDERSON and Capital City Press, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Relators.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Weinmann, Harvey D. Wagar, III, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for amici curiae.

Robert L. Kleinpeter, Kleinpeter & Nevils, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.

F. W. Middleton, Jr., F. M. Coates, Jr., W. A. Abercrombie, Jr., Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, for defendants-applicants.

TATE, Justice.

The plaintiff Kidder sues a newspaper reporter (Anderson), and his employer-publisher to recover damages resulting from the publication of several newspaper articles and editorials. Kidder was Acting Chief of Police of Baton Rouge. He alleges damages caused him by defamatory articles depicting him, a law enforcement officer, as accepting payoffs and favors from barroom proprietors and gamblers, as interested in the operation of a house of prostitution...

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