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McCOY v. HEARST CORP.

Docket No. S.F. 24967.

42 Cal.3d 835 (1986)

727 P.2d 711

231 Cal. Rptr. 518

FRANK McCOY et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. HEARST CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

November 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Walter R. Allan, Jerome C. Dougherty, Kevin M. Fong, Michael J. Bettinger, E. Jones Kleines, Kleines & Getchell, Kleines, Ballati & Getchell, Arthur Brunwasser, Margaret C. Crosby, Alan L. Schlosser, Edward M. Chen, Arthur B. Hanson and Hanson, O'Brien, Birney & Butler for Defendants and Appellants.

W. Terry Maguire, Richard M. Schmidt, Cohn & Marks, Kirk B. Freeman, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Peter W. Davis, John E. Carne, Judith R. Epstein, Kotler & Kotler, Jonathan Kotler, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert S. Warren, Rex S. Heinke, Kelli L. Sager, Gary B. Pruitt, Mullen & Stabile and Gary D. Stabile as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Charles O. Morgan, Jr., for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

Do the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and California Constitution article I, section 2, protect two reporters and a newspaper against a libel judgment when they obtained and published a prisoner's affidavit containing allegations of official misconduct on the part of two police inspectors and a prosecutor?

I.

A suit for libel was brought against the Hearst Corporation, which...

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