ALVARADO v. KOB-TV, L.L.C.

No. 06-2001.

493 F.3d 1210 (2007)

Vicente ALVARADO, Yvette Alvarado, Steve Flores, Priscilla Flores, Thomas Gutierrez, Beverly Gutierrez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KOB-TV, L.L.C. (Channel 4 News), Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 13, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Bowles, (B.J. Crow with him on the briefs) Bowles & Crow, Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Geoffrey D. Rieder, (Travis G. Jackson, with him on the brief) Foster & Rieder, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before KELLY, EBEL, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Two former undercover police officers for the City of Albuquerque brought suit against a local television station, KOB-TV, for broadcasting their identities and their undercover status in the context of their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault. The officers were never charged, and about a week after the broadcasts, the city police department announced publicly that it had concluded the officers were not involved in...

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