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- Title: Hein v. Lacy
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 18, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an action to recover damages for an alleged libel, arising from the publication and distribution of a brochure in the closing days of the 1978 primary election campaign. The plaintiff, Ronald R. Hein, was and is the Kansas state senator from the 20th Senatorial District, Shawnee County, Kansas. At the time of the publication, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Second Congressional District. The defendant, Sterling E. Lacy, is a professional family counselor who served as state chairman of the American Party. The brochure was prepared for mailing at the defendant's office which, at the time, was also the state headquarters of the American Party. On July 25, 1978, just six days before the August 1st primary election, the defendant Lacy caused to be distributed by mail and by hand around 22,000 copies of a brochure concerning the plaintiff Hein. A verbatim copy of the brochure is as follows: