United States Tenth Circuit

In an action brought against a police officer, a local television reporter and the TV station's owner pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and Oklahoma state tort law arising from the airing of excerpts of a videotape containing the rape of plaintiff, dismissal and summary judgment rulings for media defendants are affirmed over claims that the district court erred in: 1) concluding that the media defendants were not state actors; 2) concluding that her allegations and proffered evidence failed to support her state law tort claims against them; and 3) denying leave to amend her complaint to add certain claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2007
• Published 08/29/2007

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, HARTZ, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Micheal Salem of Salem Law Office, Norman, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Schultz of Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schultz, New York, N.Y. (Michael Berry of Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schultz, New York, NY;  Robert D. Nelon and Jon Epstein of Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden and Nelson, Oklahoma City, OK;  Jonathan Donnellan and Kristina Findikyan, of Counsel, The Hearst Corporation, New York, NY, with him on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.