http://www.woay.com/news.cfm?showarticle=E864F1D7-E317-4618-94627D8B21CFF767Pritt's political lawsuit set for trial this week
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - A lawsuit that alleges Republican commercials aired during the 1996 gubernatorial campaign were slanderous and libelous is expected to go to trial this week.
The trial comes nearly nine years after Democratic candidate Charlotte Pritt filed her case.
In preparing the case for trial, Fayette County Circuit Judge Paul Blake ruled with Pritt's lawyers that campaign commercials aired by her Democratic opponents in the 1992 and 1996 primary campaigns would not be viewed by jurors.
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She says the groups committed libel, slander and defamation by publishing false statements about her in ads that ran during the final weeks of her unsuccessful 1996 campaign against Republican Cecil Underwood.
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This could be a landmark case. We are always saying this one should sue or that one should sue .. Well, Charlotte is taking it literally and is sueing!
I know Charlotte. She was my teacher in high school. I can't explain just how much of an effect she had on all of us. She led by example.
She quit her teaching job the year after I graduated and came to continue her education at the same college I was attending. We continued our friendship there and she continued to inspire as an "equal".
She is an amazing progressive woman and made history by being the first woman ever to capture the nomination for govenor in WVa history.
Here's hoping that she wins this suit! The things they said about her in those ads were just horrible and should not be allowed to stand.
Go Charlotte Go!
edited to add -
Read about Charlotte here -
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1996/may/stump.htmlRead what they said about her here --
http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/index.html?uc_full_date=20020403