Mullinax v. Miller

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• finding no liability for campaign manager that provided 4 information to a candidate which she used in a flyer because he did not control the offending verbiage of the writing which was the basis of plaintiff’s lawsuit
• there was no support in logic or in case law to hold agent liable for alleged libel committed by agent’s principal
• In the context of our libel laws, “publication entails the ability to control the libel.”
• “[P]laintiffs essentially seek to hold the agent . . . liable for the acts of the principal. . . . We find no support for this theory of liability in logic or in case law.”
• “There is no 4 Similarly, “[t]he Restatement now lists four elements in a cause of action for defamation: (1) a false and defamatory statement concerning the plaintiff; (2) an unprivileged communication to a third party; (3

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