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- Title: Urethane Specialties v. City Valdez and
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 05, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice. OPINION. Appellant, Urethane Specialties, Inc., is an Alaska corporation which distributes urethane foam insulation. It brought a civil action for defamation and disparagement against the City of Valdez and Bonser Company, Inc., owner of Valdezs only newspaper, the Valdez Vanguard, for a warning the city had published in the paper. The superior court granted the motions for summary judgment made by the City of Valdez and Bonser, and this appeal followed. We hold that a portion of the printed warning is protected by the complete defense of truth and, further, that the entire warning is protected by a conditional privilege for comment by inferior administrative officers. Thus, we affirm the superior courts entry of summary judgment.