URETHANE SPECIALTIES, INC. v. CITY OF VALDEZ

No. 4451.

620 P.2d 683 (1980)

URETHANE SPECIALTIES, INC., Appellant, v. CITY OF VALDEZ and Bonser Company, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Cranston, Cranston, Walters, Dahl & Jarrell, and Robert C. Erwin, Hagans, Smith, Brown, Erwin & Gibbs, Anchorage, for appellant.

Kenneth P. Jacobus, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, for appellee City of Valdez.

David H. Call, Call, Haycraft & Fenton, Fairbanks, for appellee Bonser Co., Inc.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Urethane Specialties, Inc., is an Alaska corporation which distributes urethane foam insulation. It brought a civil action for defamation and disparagement against the City of Valdez and Bonser Company, Inc., owner of Valdez's only newspaper, the Valdez Vanguard, for a warning the city had published in the paper. The superior court granted the motions for summary judgment made by the City of Valdez and...

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