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Torts: Defamation-Protected Statements
Staff Report//June 14, 2024//
Where appellants challenged the adverse grant of summary judgment in a defamation case arising from a letter sent by respondent’s board and opposing appellant’s nomination for a candidate of the board during a contested election, the record established that the allegedly defamatory statements were either constitutionally protected statements of opinion or were substantially true, so the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment is affirmed.
Totta v. CCSB Financial Corp. (MLW No. 81654/Case No. WD86312 – 24 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Clay County, Flook, J. (Jonathan Sternberg and Brody Sabor, Kansas City, MO; John L. Mullen and Deaton G. Knott, Kansas City, MO for appellants) (Brian G. Boos and Cameron S. Bernard, Overland Park, KS for respondents).
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