Mike Price alabama football U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith Sports Illustrated SI
Ugarte and Rick, be careful about what you say about dem folks down in Alabama! One of Signor Ferrari’s many sources in the Casablanca underworld forwarded this article on a surprising court order that under Alabama law a magazine (and other media) must reveal its sources in a libel and slander action precisely because it is a magazine and not a newspaper.
Over the summer, Mike Price who had been named the head coach of the University of Alabama’s fabled college football factory after the 2002 season, was fired before he ever coached a game because of allegations involving strip clubs, strippers, sex, exorbitant room service bills (by the strippers) and lots and lots of drinking.
Sports Illustrated wrote a piece about Price’s wild weekend and he sued for slander and libel, alleging that not all of the things in the story were true (such as the sex with strippers, he does not dispute the heavy drinking and strip club attendance). Price recently won a motion to have SI reveal its sources for the story.
The basis of this ruling by a Federal District Court Judge in Alabama was that while Alabama law protects newspaper, television and radio reporters from revealing their sources, magazines and other media are not explicitly mentioned in the statute. The court found that magazines are thus not protected and SI has to give up the strippers.
Signor Ferrari will be busy the rest of the afternoon as he switches his “investments” from magazines and blogs to newspapers and televised media.
Read Less...
Ugarte and Rick, be careful about what you say about dem folks down in Alabama! One of Signor Ferrari’s many sources in the Casablanca underworld forwarded this article on a surprising court order that under Alabama law a magazine (and other media) must reveal its sources in a libel and slander action precisely because it is a magazine and not a newspaper.
Over the summer, Mike Price who had been named the head coach of the University of Alabama’s fabled college football factory after the 2002 season, was fired before he ever coached a game because of allegations involving strip clubs, strippers, sex, exorbitant room service bills (by the strippers) and lots and lots of drinking.
Sports Illustrated wrote a piece about Price’s wild weekend and he sued for slander and libel, alleging that not all of the things in the story were true (such as the sex with strippers, he does not dispute the heavy drinking and strip club attendance). Price recently won a motion to have SI reveal its sources for the story.
The basis of this ruling by a Federal District Court Judge in Alabama was that while Alabama law protects newspaper, television and radio reporters from revealing their sources, magazines and other media are not explicitly mentioned in the statute. The court found that magazines are thus not protected and SI has to give up the strippers.
Signor Ferrari will be busy the rest of the afternoon as he switches his “investments” from magazines and blogs to newspapers and televised media.
Read Less...
Price is right!
