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MANUEL v. FORT COLLINS NEWSPAPERS,INC.

No. 79SC171.

631 P.2d 1114 (1981)

William MANUEL, Petitioner, v. FORT COLLINS NEWSPAPERS, INC., a Colorado corporation, Stephanie Brown, Larry Steward, and Jerry Sharpnack, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker & Brown, William Tucker, Denver, for petitioner.

Hill & Hill, P. C., Alden V. Hill, Fort Collins, for respondents.

Perry P. Burnett, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado Counties, Inc.

Hall & Evans, Thomas B. Kelley, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Richard P. Holme, Denver, for amici curiae Colorado Press Ass'n and The Colorado Broadcasters Ass'n.

LOHR, Justice.

The petitioner, William Manuel, was awarded $100,000 in compensatory damages in his public official defamation action against Fort Collins Newspapers, Inc., the owner and publisher of the Fort Collins Coloradoan; the newspaper's editor, Jerry Sharpnack; and two of its reporters, Stephanie Brown and Larry Steward (respondents). The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the judgment1 on the basis that the trial court had improperly...

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