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LANSDOWNE v. BEACON JOURNAL PUB. CO.

No. 86-1263.

32 Ohio St. 3d 176 (1987)

LANSDOWNE, APPELLEE, v. BEACON JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided September 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Jamieson, for appellee.

Roetzel & Andress, Norman S. Carr, Ronald S. Kopp and Robert J. Caffrey, for appellants.

LOCHER, J.

This appeal once again presents this court with the general problem of reconciling the law of defamation with the freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 11, Article I of the Ohio Constitution.

In reaching its decision, the court of appeals relied upon the standard of liability for defamation actions brought by private-figure plaintiffs as enunciated...

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