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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.