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- Title: Herron V. Tribune Publishing Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 07, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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This case is a defamation action brought by former Pierce County Prosecutor Don Herron*fn1 against The Tribune Publishing Company and one of its reporters for a series of articles published in the Tacoma News Tribune (Tribune) in August 1979. The trial court granted the defendants' summary judgment motion for dismissal, and the plaintiffs appealed. We accepted certification pursuant to RCW 2.06.030, and we affirm. The principal issues here are whether the plaintiffs provided the trial court with evidence of actual malice sufficient to withstand the summary judgment motion and, if so, whether any privilege attached to the newspaper articles based on their reporting on the contents of a recall petition. We hold that with one exception the plaintiffs did not meet their burden of proof on the element of actual malice and that in the one instance where
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