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O.C.A.W. v. SINCLAIR OIL CORP.

No. 86-239.

748 P.2d 283 (1987)

OIL, CHEMICAL AND ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, John E. Foley, and Joseph M. Misbrener, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. SINCLAIR OIL CORPORATION, a Wyoming and Delaware corporation, Earl Holding, individually and as Director and Officer of Sinclair Oil Corporation, J.R. McIntire, individually and as Refinery Manager and employee of Sinclair Oil Corporation, and John Doe(s), whether singular or plural, that individual or those individuals who participated in the republishing of the defamatory statement, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Rideout, of Freudenthal, Salzburg, Bonds & Rideout, Cheyenne, and Donald J. Mares, of Law Office of John W. McKendree, Denver, Colo., for appellants, argument by McKendree.

Glenn Parker and James Applegate, of Hirst & Applegate, Cheyenne, and Dan S. Bushnell, of Kirton, McConkie & Bushnell, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellees, argument by Messrs. Applegate and Bushnell.

Before BROWN, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT, and MACY, JJ.

CARDINE, Justice.

The stakes were high. The union, OCAW, and Sinclair Oil Corporation were locked in a contest for votes of Sinclair employees in a union decertification election. As expected, each party was commendably zealous in free and open debate presenting their respective positions. A letter, critical of the union and its officers, written by a former employee of OCAW, was circulated among Sinclair employees. OCAW lost the election. An action for damages, claimed...

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