Publisher Thomson West has appealed a jury verdict awarding $5 million to two law professors after the company published a legal supplement under their names that the professors said was “a total ripoff.”
The West attorneys admitted that they gave the supplement to an inexperienced editor who made errors, but that not meeting professional standards in editing did not constitute actual malice required to find defamation. -db
From the Courthouse News Service, March 16, 2011, by Reuben Kramer.
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