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AYALA v. WASHINGTON

No. 92-CV-1553.

679 A.2d 1057 (1996)

Kevin AYALA, Appellant, v. Evie L. WASHINGTON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul H. Zukerberg, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Robert J. Jones, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Before TERRY and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and MACH, Senior Judge.

RUIZ, Associate Judge.

This case requires us to decide the meaning of the First Amendment's injunction against laws "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" in the context of an action for defamation. A jury found that appellant Kevin Ayala, in airline pilot, had shown by a preponderance of the evidence that this former lover, applellee Evie Washington, falsely told Ayala's employer and the Federal Aviation Administration that he had used marijuana during...

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