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PETA v. BOBBY BEROSINI, LTD.

No. 21580.

867 P.2d 1121 (1994)

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, aka PETA, a Delaware non-profit corporation; Performing Animal Welfare Society, aka PAWS, a California non-profit corporation; Jeanne Roush, Ottavio Gesmundo, and Pat Derby, Appellants, v. BOBBY BEROSINI, LTD., a Nevada corporation, and Bohumil Berousek, aka Bobby Berosini, individually, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

As Amended March 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hale, Lane, Peek, Dennison & Howard and Robert D. Martin, Las Vegas, for appellant Gesmundo.

Hirschkop & Associates, Alexandria, VA, for appellants PETA, Roush and Gesmundo.

Watkiss & Saperstein, Salt Lake City, UT, for appellants PETA and Roush.

Anderson, Pearl, Hardesty, Lyle, Murphy & Stone, Reno, for appellants PAWS and Derby.

Gewerter & Bohn, Thomas Pitaro, Las Vegas, Hibbs, Roberts, Lemons, Grundy & Eisenberg, Reno, for respondents.

Woodburn, Wedge & Jeppson and Suellen Fulston, Reno, for amicus curiae Nevada State Press Ass'n.

Susan Quig-Terry, Las Vegas, for amici curiae Humane Society of the U.S., et. al.

OPINION

SPRINGER, Justice:

In this litigation respondent Berosini claims that two animal rights organizations, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and three individuals defamed him and invaded his privacy. Judgment was entered by the trial court on jury verdicts on the libel and invasion of privacy claims in the aggregate amount of $4.2 million. This appeal followed. We conclude that the...

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