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HINERMAN v. DAILY GAZETTE CO., INC.

No. 20489.

423 S.E.2d 560 (1992)

188 W.Va. 157

Raymond A. HINERMAN, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, v. The DAILY GAZETTE COMPANY, INC., Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 15, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph L. DiTrapano, Charleston, Rebecca A. Baitty, Sarasota, Fla., for appellant.

Harry P. Waddell, Gordon H. Copland, Steptoe & Johnson, Clarksburg, for appellee.

NEELY, Justice:

This is a libel case against The Charleston Gazette in which the plaintiff, Raymond Hinerman, recovered $75,000 in actual damages and $300,000 in punitive damages. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Sam Levin is a Russian immigrant who came to the United States in 1975 and moved to Wheeling in 1977. Mr. Levin was trained as a mining engineer in Russia and he found work in West Virginia as a miner...

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