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DUPLER v. MANSFIELD JOURNAL CO., INC.

No. 80-196.

64 Ohio St. 2d 116 (1980)

DUPLER, APPELLANT, v. MANSFIELD JOURNAL CO., INC., APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph I. Tripodi and Mr. James R. Barnhouse, for appellant.

Messrs. Smith, Renner, Hanhart, Miller & Kyler, Mr. Richard M. Hanhart and Mr. William A. Kyler, for appellee.

I.

SWEENEY, J.

It is uncontroverted that appellant, as a Dover city councilman and mayoral candidate, was a public official, so that the defamatory nature of the editorial criticism leveled against him is to be judged by the actual malice standard of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), 376 U.S. 254.2 This standard "prohibits a public...

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