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EDWARDS v. DETROIT NEWS, INC.

No. 334058.

910 N.W.2d 394 (2017)

322 Mich.App. 1

James EDWARDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DETROIT NEWS, INC., Defendant-Appellee, and Bankole Thompson, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided October 31, 2017, 9:00 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bristow Law, PLLC (by Kyle James Bristow ) for plaintiff.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (by James E. Stewart , Leonard M. Niehoff , and Andrew M. Pauwels ) for defendants.

Before: Gleicher, P.J., and Fort Hood and Swartzle, JJ.

The Restatement (Second) of Torts § 559 lists membership in the Ku Klux Klan as the quintessential illustration of a defamatory statement. In an opinion piece in The Detroit News, columnist Bankole Thompson asserted that radio talk-show host James Edwards is a "leader" of the Ku Klux Klan. There is no record evidence to...

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