United States Eleventh Circuit

Judgment on the pleadings in a defamation action was improper where a reasonable person could construe comments on a television broadcast as a factual statement that plaintiff had advance knowledge that an abortion provider was going to be murdered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2002
• Published 09/06/2002

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, CARNES and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven Louis Lane, Joseph R. Bankoff, Jamie Nordhaus Shipp, King & Spalding, Ralph L. Knowles, Jr., Leslie J. Bryan, Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.