HEBREW ACADEMY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. GOLDMAN

No. S134873.

70 Cal.Rptr.3d 178 (2007)

42 Cal.4th 883

173 P.3d 1004

HEBREW ACADEMY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Richard N. GOLDMAN et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Paul Kleven and Paul Kleven, Berkeley, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Carlson, Calladine & Peterson, Michael C. Cooper, San Francisco; Steefel, Levitt & Weiss and Barry W. Lee, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.

Horvitz & Levy, John A. Taylor, Jr., and Jeremy B. Rosen, Encino, for Aeonix Publishing Group, The American Association of Law Libraries, The American Society for Information Science and Technology, The Association for Documentary Editing, The Association of Research Libraries, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, The Independent Book Publishers Association. The Medical Library Association, The National Coalition for History, Nestle USA, Inc., The Oral History Association, The Small Press Center, The Society of American Archivists, The Southern California Association of Law Libraries and The Special Libraries Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Christopher M. Patti, Oakland; Munger, Tolles & Olson, Bradley S. Phillips, Los Angeles, and Ailsa W. Chang, for The Regents of the University of California as

Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


MORENO, J.

In this case, we address whether the statute of limitations bars a cause of action for defamation that is based upon statements contained in a transcript of an oral history that was published with only limited circulation. We held in Shively v. Bozanich (2003) 31 Cal.4th 1230, 1237, 7 Cal.Rptr.3d 576, 80 P.3d 676, that under the...

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