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COTTRELL v. NAT. COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASS'N

No. 1041858, 1050436, and 1050437.

975 So.2d 306 (2007)

Ronald W. COTTRELL and Ivy Williams v. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION et al. Tom Culpepper v. Ronald W. Cottrell.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 1, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas T. Gallion III of Haskell, Slaughter, Young & Gallion, LLC, Montgomery; J. Michael Rediker, Charles M. Elmer, and Michael C. Skotnicki of Haskell, Slaughter, Young & Rediker, LLC, Birmingham; and C. Delaine Mountain of Mountain & Baird, Tuscaloosa, for appellant/cross-appellee Ronald W. Cottrell and appellant Ivy Williams,

James J. Jenkins and A. Courtney Crowder of Phelps, Jenkins, Gibson & Fowler, L.L.P., Tuscaloosa; and Robert H. Rutherford and John C. Morrow of Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham, for appellees National Collegiate Athletic Association, Thomas Yeager, and Richard Johanningmeier.

John P. Scott and Joshua H. Threadcraft of Starnes & Atchison, LLP, Birmingham, for appellee/cross-appellant Tom Culpepper.

STUART, Justice.

Ronald W. ("Ronnie") Cottrell and Ivy Williams sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("the NCAA"), Tom Culpepper, and others alleging defamation, false-light invasion of privacy, negligence, wantonness, and civil conspiracy. The only claim that was presented to the jury was Cottrell's defamation claim against Culpepper. The jury returned a verdict for Cottrell in the amount of $6 million in compensatory damages and $24 million in punitive...

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