United States Eleventh Circuit

An allegedly defamatory statement made during a television program, that an anti-abortion activist was an "accomplice to homicide", is protected under both the First Amendment and Georgia law as an imaginative and figurative expression that could not have been taken by a reasonable viewer of the Program as a literal assertion of facts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2002
• Published 05/28/2002

Judges

• CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, HILL and HALL , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal Horsley, Carrollton, GA, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Kummer,National Broadcasting Co., Inc., New York City, Joseph R. Bankoff, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.