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DIESEN v. HESSBURG

No. C2-88-1345.

455 N.W.2d 446 (1990)

Donald J. DIESEN, Respondent, v. John HESSBURG, et al., Petitioners, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Thibodeau, Joseph J. Roby, Jr., and Sally L. Sjogren, Johnson, Killen, Thibodeau & Sieler, P.A., Duluth, for appellants.

Patrick T. Tierney, Collins, Buckley, Sauntry & Haugh, St. Paul, for respondent.

Mark R. Anfinson, Minneapolis, for amicus curiae, Minnesota News Paper Ass'n.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

POPOVICH, Chief Justice.

On November 15, 1981, the Duluth News-Tribune published three articles concerning battered women that were critical of the job performance of the Carlton County Attorney, Donald Diesen, in prosecuting domestic abuse. Diesen sued the News-Tribune, its executive editor, Thomas Daly, and the reporter who wrote the articles, John Hessburg, for libel. The jury found by special verdict the articles' implication was substantially false, appellants...

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