HAAS v. GILL

No. 87-C-774.

527 So.2d 368 (1988)

George L. HAAS, Jr. v. James GILL and the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Lepow, Metairie, for plaintiff-respondent George L. Haas, Jr.

Jack M. Weiss, Mary Louise Strong, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for defendants-relators The Times-Picayune Pub. Corp. and James Gill.

Before KLIEBERT, BOWES and WICKER, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

This writ application arises in an action for defamation brought by Colonel George L. Haas, Jr., a deputy sheriff in the Parish of Jefferson, against The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation and James Gill, based on a column written by Gill and published in The Times-Picayune/The States Item newspaper. After the trial court denied the defendants' motion for summary judgment an application for supervisory writs was filed with this court. Since we...

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