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132156P.pdf 08/28/2014 Jane Doe v. Sammy Hagar
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-2156
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo
[PUBLISHED] [Bright, Author, with Loken and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case. In action alleging Sammy Hagar libeled plaintiff in his
autobiograhpy Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, the district court erred in
granting Hagar's motion for summary judgment as Hagar's statements were
defamatory as a matter of law, and there were jury issues concerning
whether plaintiff had satisfied the publication element of her libel per
se claim and whether the challenged statements were "of and concerning
her;" further, with respect to Hagar's defense that the statements were
substantially true, plaintiff had produced sufficient evidence to raise a
jury question on the issue; the district court also erred in granting
summary judgment on plaintiff's false light invasion of privacy claim as
she satisfied the "publicity" element of a false light claim and raised a
jury issue as to whether the challenged statements were sufficiently
publicized; district court did not err in granting Hagar summary judgment
on plaintiff's intentional infliction of emotional distress claim;
plaintiff raised a jury issue as to whether Hagar's comments breached the
parties' confidentiality agreement, and the court erred in granting Hagar
summary judgment on her breach-of-contract claim; no error in granting
Hagar summary judgment on plaintiff's breach of the covenant of good faith
and fair dealing claims.