Appellate court affirms summary judgment for newspaper

The Media Law Prof Blog reports that a Georgia state appellate court upheld a summary judgment holding in a libel suit against the Savannah Morning News. 

William Torrance, a former city manager in Eastman, Ga., first sued the paper after it ran a series of articles investigating the death of a peeping tom who victimized Torrance’s daughter. Torrance specifically complained, among other things, that the articles reported that he had been “let go” as the city manager of Eastman, that there were allegations that he had abused drugs, and that he had illegally wiretapped a conversation with a state investigator.