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WELCH v. AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. OF KENTUCKY

No. 98-SC-0010-DG.

3 S.W.3d 724 (1999)

Troy WELCH, Appellant, v. AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY OF KENTUCKY, a/b/a The Daily News, Paul Douglas Hall, and Jimmy Pursiful, Jr., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

October 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Dean, London, Stella B. House, Manchester, for Appellant.

Jon L. Fleischaker, R. Kenyon Meyer, Cheryl R. Winn, Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, Louisville, Cynthia Blevins Doll, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Bridget Leigh Dunaway, Taylor, Keller & Dunaway, London, W. Patrick Hauser, Barbourville, for Appellees.

LAMBERT, Justice.

An indispensable principle of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is "that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 271, 84...

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