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HOWE v. DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC.

No. 185550.

555 N.W.2d 738 (1996)

219 Mich. App. 150

Virgil M. HOWE, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. DETROIT FREE PRESS, INC., Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 27, 1996, at 9:15 a.m.

Released for Publication November 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic & Heilmann by Richard E. Shaw, Detroit, for plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn by Herschel P. Fink, Detroit, for defendant-appellee/cross-appellant.

Before CAVANAGH, P.J., and MURPHY and C.W. SIMON, Jr., JJ.

MURPHY, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals as of right the trial court's order of dismissal and entry of judgment in favor of defendant. We affirm.

This defamation action is based upon a newspaper article originally published in the San Jose (California) Mercury News on July 20, 1986, regarding major league baseball pitcher Steve Howe, son of plaintiff Virgil Howe, and his struggles with cocaine and its effect on his baseball career. In the article, reporter Mike Antonucci...

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