McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. F007501.

189 Cal.App.3d 961 (1987)

234 Cal. Rptr. 702

McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FRESNO COUNTY, Respondent; PAUL S. MOSESIAN, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

February 24, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert S. Warren, Rex S. Heinke, Kelli L. Sager, Dietrich, Glasrud & Jones, Donald H. Glasrud and Timothy J. Buchanan for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Nuttall, Berman & Magill and Roger T. Nuttall for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

HAMLIN, J.

Petitioners McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., publisher of the Fresno Bee, and two of its reporters, Jeanie Borba and Royal Calkins (collectively petitioners), seek a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the Fresno County Superior Court (respondent court) to grant petitioners' motion for summary judgment in this libel case. Their petition requires this court to decide whether subdivision 4 of Civil Code section 47 grants...

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