NATIONWIDE BI-WEEKLY ADMIN., INC. v. BELO CORP.

No. 06-11283.

512 F.3d 137 (2007)

NATIONWIDE BI-WEEKLY ADMINISTRATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BELO CORP., The Dallas Morning News, and Scott Burns, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Hardwick Hofmeister, Derek D. Rollins, Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, Dallas, TX, Barbara Bison Jacobson (argued), Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Paul Christopher Watler (argued), Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before DeMOSS, DENNIS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.


DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:

Nationwide Bi-Weekly Administration ("Nationwide") brought defamation and related claims against Belo Corp., THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, and writer Scott Burns (collectively referred to as "Belo") based on an allegedly defamatory article that appeared in THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. The district court granted Belo's Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds and Nationwide appealed to this court. For the reasons stated below...

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