BATSON v. SHIFLETT

No. 766, September Term, 1990.

86 Md. App. 340 (1991)

586 A.2d 792

ARTHUR E. BATSON, JR., ET AL. v. A. SPENCER SHIFLETT, JR.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

March 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Brodie (Michael R. Kopac, III and Sacks, Basch, Brodie & Sacks, Philadelphia, Pa., Kathryn Miller Goldman and Quinn, Ward & Kershaw, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellants.

Herbert J. Belgrad and Steven R. Freeman (Kenneth P. Niman, Harriet E. Cooperman and Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ALPERT, CATHELL and DAVIS, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

Stemming from the publication of several leaflets distributed to local members of a national union, A. Spencer Shiflett, Jr. ("Shiflett"), appellee/plaintiff, sued the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America ("National Union") and Arthur E. Batson, Jr. ("Batson"), the National Union's president, appellants/defendants, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County for damages based on allegations of defamation, intentional infliction...

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