BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. This is a libel case in which a jury awarded actual and punitive damages to a former chancery clerk where the newspaper printed a story revealing that a truck seized in a drug arrest was registered to him. We conclude that, under the applicable standards for libel involving a public official as dictated by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the plaintiff failed to adduce sufficient evidence to allow...
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