BERTRAND v. MULLIN

No. 12-0649.

846 N.W.2d 884 (2014)

Rick BERTRAND, Appellant, v. Rick MULLIN and The Iowa Democratic Party, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 16, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeana L. Goosmann and Emilee Boyle Gehling of Goosmann Law Firm, PLC, Sioux City, for appellant.

Mark McCormick of Belin McCormick, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.


CADY, Chief Justice.

In this appeal and cross-appeal, we must decide whether a political campaign advertisement aired on television constituted actionable defamation. The district court overruled a motion for directed verdict at trial, and a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Both parties appealed and raised a variety of claims of error. On our review, we conclude the verdict cannot stand because the action was not supported by sufficient evidence of actual...

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