KOTV news, the dark side.

[Townsend]

Anyone know how the appeal went?  (Robert Joffe v Clayton Vaughn/KOTV)

[Conan71]

I seem to recall that KOTV lost their appeal, but can't decipher the posting on it.  Maybe one of our staff attorneys will check in:

http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/GetCaseInformation.asp?submitted=true&viewtype=caseGeneral&casemasterID=57843&db=Appellate


Richardson had a good run on Belo Broadcasting for awhile (the owner of Channel 6 before Griffin).  He won a huge award for a district attorney down in Texas named Vic Feazell against their DFW station.  As I recall, it was the largest libel settlement in the United States at the time.

Ahhh, here's the reference I was looking for:

Attorney Vic Feazell denies he feels any special pleasure in the lawsuit he has brought against Belo Corp.-owned KVUE-TV, charging that the station libeled a local modeling agency. But it's hard to escape the juicy storyline: In 1991 Feazell, the former district attorney in McLennan Co., won a $58 million libel judgment against the media conglomerate and its Dallas affiliate, WFAA-TV – at the time the largest libel award in history. Although the suit was eventually settled out of court, the jury agreed that WFAA was malicious and negligent when it accused Feazell of corruption in a 10-part series.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2006-06-16/375838/

[Noodlez]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=415979
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=439149

Sounds like KOTV lost the appeal

[DolfanBob]

I'm not saying that he is. But when I look at Richardson. The word "Shyster" comes to mind.
You know what I mean ? He sure could play one on T.V.

[Conan71]

Well, and to look at Joffe, I would have assumed he had a pocket full of three dollar bills.

[Hoss]

Well, and to look at Joffe, I would have assumed he had a pocket full of three dollar bills.

D'oh!