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PRICE v. WALTERS

No. 78483.

918 P.2d 1370 (1996)

William S. PRICE, Appellant, v. David Lee WALTERS and Don Hoover, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. David Lightfoot, David L. Medford Lightfoot & Medford, Oklahoma City, Gary L. Richardson, Gregory G. Meier, Richardson, Meier & Stoops, Tulsa, for Appellant.

Michael C. Turpen, M.D. Bedingfield, Douglas A. Wilson, Chapel, Riggs, Abney, Neal & Turpen, Oklahoma City, for Appellees.

Robert D. Nelon, Gretchen A. Harris, Laura B. Hood, Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Price, Oklahoma City, for amicus curiae.

SIMMS, Justice.

William S. Price, Candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket in the 1990 election, brought a defamation action against David Lee Walters, the Democrat Candidate, and Don Hoover, Walter's media assistant, three weeks prior to the general election. This action arose from a press release issued by Walters and Hoover some eight days prior to the filing of the defamation action.

The trial judge sustained...

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