JAMES v. SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, INC.

Docket No. H009444.

17 Cal.App.4th 1 (1993)

20 Cal. Rptr.2d 890

ARAM B. JAMES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

June 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Brown, Hall, Clair & McKinley, Steven A. Clair, Joseph A. Varni and Howard C. Anawalt for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Edward P. Davis, Jr., Kevin M. Fong and Judy Alexander for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, J.

Aram B. James, an attorney employed by a county public defender's office, sued a newspaper and one of its employees for libel. The employee, acting as a bylined columnist for the newspaper, had written, and the newspaper had printed, a column which named James in the context of a discussion of asserted violations of law by defense attorneys in criminal cases involving child victims. The defendants moved...

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