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THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER CO. v. BEARD

690 S.W.2d 374 (1984)

THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER COMPANY, Movant, v. Flossie C. BEARD, Bob Boone, Grace M. Donnelly, Kathy D. Greer, Connie S. Heird, Peter H. Laws, Karen M. Meekins, Lori G. Miller, Vicky Rankin, Martha Robertson, Kay Shannon, William A. Stallings, and Danielle G. Twining, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Timothy Cone, Elsa Goss Black, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, for movant.

Thomas H. Burnett, David M. Andrews, Lexington, for respondents.

LEIBSON, Justice.

This case involves the scope of discovery in a libel case.

Respondents are thirteen former employees of the University of Kentucky's Tobacco and Health Institute who sued the movant, a Lexington newspaper, claiming that the newspaper had published a series of articles about the Institute containing false and defamatory statements that the respondents were "fired," that they were "incompetent, crooked...

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