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STEGALL v. WTWV, INC.

No. 89-CA-0333.

609 So.2d 348 (1992)

J.P. STEGALL v. WTWV, INC., a Mississippi Corporation, and Catherine (Cathy) Coggin Nash.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing December 10, 1992.

Dissenting Opinion on Denial of Rehearing December 10, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy O. Parker, Roy O. Parker, Jr., Roy O. Parker & Associates, Tupelo, for appellant.

Guy W. Mitchell, III, Donna M. Barnes, Mitchell McNutt Threadgill Smith & Sams, Tupelo, and Florence Snyder Rivas, Milledge & Iden, Palm Beach, Fla., for appellee.

Terryl K. Rushing, Leonard D. Van Slyke, Jr., Thomas Price Alston Jones & Davis, John C. Henegan, E. Marcus Wiggs, III, W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr., Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Thomas Wicker, Holland Ray & Upchurch, Tupelo, Henry Laird, Mize Blass Lenoir & Laird, Gulfport, and Luther T. Munford, and John P. Sneed, Helps Dunbar Firm, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PITTMAN and BANKS, JJ.

Dissenting Opinion of Presiding Justice Hawkins on Denial of Rehearing December 10, 1992.

PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

J.P. Stegall, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, commenced this action on December 2, 1987, alleging that Cathy Coggin, a WTWV reporter, and WTWV, Inc., a television station broadcasting over Channel Nine in Northeast Mississippi, had willfully, maliciously, and knowingly issued a false broadcast on August 4, 1987, during the evening newscast...

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