KILCOYNE v. PLAIN DEALER PUBLISHING CO.

No. 68648, 69345.

112 Ohio App.3d 229 (1996)

KILCOYNE, Appellant, v. PLAIN DEALER PUBLISHING COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Decided May 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don C. Her, for appellant.

Baker & Hostetler, Louis A. Colombo, Michael K. Farrell and Randy Solomon, for appellees.


KARPINSKI, Judge.

This case arises from media commentary on a series of legal proceedings involving a judge upon his acquittal of five felony charges. The case presents a textbook conflict between claims of defamatory harm to reputation and the principles of free speech and debate on public issues. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial court's grant of summary judgment and dismissal of the remaining tort claims.

Plaintiff-appellant James Kilcoyne...

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