Jurisprudence
An Austin (Tex.) jury essentially awarded no damages to journalist Jack Taylor Jr. in his $30-million libel lawsuit against former Oklahoma football Coach Barry Switzer.
The jury awarded Taylor $95,000 and Switzer, who had countersued, $18,500 in exemplary damages. But because the jurors didn’t award punitive damages in any of the charges, neither man apparently takes anything, according to their lawyers.
Taylor, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and now working at the Los Angeles Daily News, had sued Switzer for libel, slander and invasion of privacy over allegations against him in the former coach’s autobiography, “Bootlegger’s Boy.” Switzer’s countersuit was based on Taylor’s illegally obtaining Switzer’s tax returns.
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