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YEAKEY v. HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

No. 39263-1-II.

234 P.3d 332 (2010)

Warren YEAKEY, Respondent, v. HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation, and Texas Newspaper, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as General Partners of Hearst Newspapers Partnership, L.P., owner of and DBA Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Andrea James and "John Doe" James, a married couple, and John Iwasaki and "Jane Doe" Iwasaki, a married couple, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

July 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matt Andrew Renda, Law Office of Matt A. Renda, Tacoma, WA, for Respondent.

Stephen Alan Smith, K & L Gates LLP, Seattle, WA, Jonathan R. Donnellan, The Hearst Corporation, New York, NY, for Appellants.

WORSWICK, J.

¶ 1 Hearst Communications, Inc., the parent company of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (PI), appeals from the trial court's denial of PI's CR 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a defamation claim brought by Warren Yeakey following the publication of a series of news articles. We reverse and remand for dismissal.

FACTS

¶ 2 On November 16, 2006, Yeakey was operating a large tower crane at a Bellevue construction site when it collapsed...

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