Detroit Adult Entertainment: Warren Yeakey, Former Crane Operator, Fails to Get his Defamation Suit Against …

July 7, 2010 at 9:36 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

… The Seattle Post-Intelligencer may no longer exist as a paper, but its stories live on in many ways–including in court, where owner Hearst Communications has been battling a defamation suit over a package of stories the paper ran about a disastrous Bellevue construction accident (see above) and a crane operator named Warren Yeakey. On this matter, the company got a reprieve today as the state Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s opinion and quashed the suit.
At issue was the paper’s coverage of a large crane that collapsed atop a Bellevue condo building in November of 2006, killing a 31-year-old Microsoft attorney who was inside. “Operator in crane wreck has history of drug abuse,” the P-I announced in a headline to one story, which delved into the criminal history of Yeakey. That history, according to the story, included “at least six drug convictions,” as well as convictions for domestic violence and soliciting a prostitute.

See the full article from “Seattle Weekly (blog)”

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