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TACKET v. DELCO REMY DIV. OF GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 89-3496.

937 F.2d 1201 (1991)

Thomas J. TACKET, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DELCO REMY DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1991.

Rehearing Denied September 6, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lee McNeely, McNeely, Sanders, Stephenson & Thopy, Shelbyville, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Arend J. Abel, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, Ind., Herbert C. Snyder, Jr., Barnes & Thornburg, Fort Wayne, Ind., for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Chief Judge.

According to the age-old children's rhyme, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you." Plaintiff-appellee Thomas Tacket and the law of defamation, however, argue otherwise. According to Tacket, another mellifluous rhyme, one that read "TACKET TACKET WHAT A RACKET," when painted on the inside wall of General Motors', Anderson, Indiana, assembly plant and allowed to remain there for seven or eight months, defamed him and...

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