Court Opinion

ID: 9693596
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:51:58.552723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:48.826933
License: Public Domain

POPOVICH, Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in the result that the majority reaches regarding appellee-Parry’s susceptibility to suit because his statements are capable of a defamatory meaning. However, I must dissent from the majority’s reversal of summary judgment as to the other appellee, Field Communications. Field Communications was merely the conduit of the information, and, under the particular circumstances here, I find that there was no showing of malice attributable to Field in its capacity as a disseminator of information to the public, notwithstanding appellant’s protestation that the information was false prior to the rebroadcast.