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EX PARTE RUDDER

85-871.

507 So.2d 411 (1987)

Ex parte Dr. William H. RUDDER. (Re Dr. William H. RUDDER v. UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, etc., et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Boswell, Mobile, for petitioner.

Carroll H. Sullivan and John C. Dobbs of Hume & Sullivan, Mobile, for respondents.

SHORES, Justice.

This is a petition for writ of mandamus or, in the alternative, petition for writ of prohibition. The petition arises in the context of a defamation case in which Dr. William H. Rudder sued Universal Communications Corporation (owners of WALA-TV in Mobile) and Glenda Webb (an investigative reporter for WALA). Dr. Rudder, a Mobile psychiatrist, filed a libel and invasion of privacy lawsuit against WALA and Webb, based upon television broadcasts on...

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