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FERNANDES v. TENBRUGGENCATE

No. 8050.

649 P.2d 1144 (1982)

William E. FERNANDES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jan TENBRUGGENCATE and the Honolulu Advertiser, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Salling and Lehua Fernandes Salling, Kapaa (Fernandes, Salling & Salling, Kapaa, of counsel) on briefs for plaintiff-appellant.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Honolulu (Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, of counsel) on briefs for defendants-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and LUM, NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff-appellant, Councilman William Fernandes (hereinafter cited as appellant), appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees, Jan Tenbruggencate and the Honolulu Advertiser (hereinafter cited as appellees or Tenbruggencate and Advertiser respectively), in a defamation action. For reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I.

Appellant initiated this action in response to a series of articles published...

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