Court Opinion

ID: 9765214
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:56:27.453984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:06.391422
License: Public Domain

Ray Thornton, Justice, concurring. I concur in the deci sion to affirm, but, in my opinion, it is only necessary to decide whether the trial court erred in determining that Jarrell Southall was a limited-purpose public figure who failed to show that appellees published the allegedly inaccurate news stories about him with actual malice. Southall’s charges, if proven, would not reach the threshold of actual malice required by the landmark case of New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). I agree with the majority that the trial court did not err in granting summary judgment and that the case should be affirmed. Special Justice Keith N. Wood joins in this concurrence.