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HARRIS v. ADKINS

No. 21537.

432 S.E.2d 549 (1993)

189 W.Va. 465

Dean M. HARRIS, Plaintiff, v. Harold ADKINS, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 28, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Edward Nogay, Sellitti & Nogay, Weirton, for plaintiff.

Jeffrey A. Holmstrand, Rhonda L. Wade, Bachman, Hess, Bachmann & Garden, Wheeling, W. Dean DeLaMater, DeLaMater, Hague & Bohach, Weirton, for defendant.

MILLER, Justice:

This case comes before us through a certified question from the Circuit Court of Hancock County, pursuant to W.Va.Code, 58-5-2 (1967).1 We are asked to decide whether the Petition Clause of Section 16 of Article III of the West Virginia Constitution2 provides absolute immunity to a defendant charged with expressing libelous falsehoods about a city councilman at a public city council meeting...

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