Re: DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER BY A NEWSPAPER

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On 6/10/05, REMI27 wrote:
> My half brother and some friends were recently arrested
> and charged for possesion of meth, mfg meth, and fraud.
> In the article the names listed were my half brother, my
> dad's name, and the friends name. My dad had nothing to
> do with this. He has not seen or spoke to my half brother
> in many years. The article was on the front page of our
> local newspaper and my dad's good name is the reason his
> business does well. They did post a retractment the
> statement on the front of the newspaper the next day, but
> there was no apology. Does my dad have a case against
> this newspaper? I know it was a mistake in printing, but
> it's a costly mistake.

They printed a retraction thus correcting an error. There is
no law that says they have to apologize. Though that would be
nice, that's up to them but again, they did correct their
mistake.

Sorry, no case.