Litigation
Nov. 8, 2000
Court Declines to Put Price on Confidentiality
How much is a reputation worth? A state appellate court has ruled that it's "impossible" to say whether a Sonoma County developer who won a $10,000 jury verdict against a bank for libeling him as a "slime-ball" would be better or worse off if he had accepted a pre-trial $25,000 settlement requiring that he keep the bank's apology to him a secret.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A state appellate court has ruled that it's "impossible" to say whether a Sonoma County developer who won a $10,000 jury verdict against a bank for libeling him as a "slime-ball" would be better or worse off if he had accepted a p...
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