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- Title: Ronald R. Rutt v. Bethlehems Globe Publishing Co.
- Author : Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 06, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 79 KB
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Presently before this Court are the consolidated appeals from the disposition of cross-motions for summary judgment filed by the parties to a libel action. The trial court granted the motion for partial summary judgment filed by Ronald R. Rutt, Sr., hereinafter appellant, after concluding as a matter of law that (1) the article at issue was capable of defamatory meaning, and (2) that appellant was a private figure plaintiff for purposes of the libel action. The motion of appellees, the Bethlehems Globe Times, John Strohmeyer and James B. Gaffney, for partial summary judgment upon the issue of the burden of proof of a private figure plaintiff in a defamation suit against a media defendant was also granted, the court holding that Pennsylvania law required a private figure plaintiff to establish that the defamatory matter was published with actual malice, as that term is defined in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964).
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