U.S. Supreme Court lets stand dismissal of $10.1 million against Tampa Bay Times

The U.S. Supreme Court decided a libel case in favor of the Tampa Bay Times. A doctor sued over a series of 2003 articles about his demotion from chief of medicine at a medical center to a cardiology specialty.

A jury decided for the doctor, but the trial judge threw out the verdict and the $10.1 million judgment on the grounds that the plaintiff’s evidence did not pass First Amendment muster. -db

From the Tampa Bay Times, March 26, 2012, by Jamal Thalji.

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