TheReverend
07-02-2008, 10:01 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/colts/2003-11-04-manning-defamation-suit_x.htm
Manning's image could take hit in suit
By Mel Antonen, USA TODAY
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who has one of the NFL's most sparkling marketing images, will have to continue defending himself against a defamation lawsuit, the record of which includes a graphic description of an act he is accused of committing against a female assistant trainer while he was at the University of Tennessee.
Peyton Manning says the act in question was harmless, but former Tenn. trainer Jamie Naughright has filed a defamation suit against him.
By Steve Nesius, AP
Manning asked for the suit to be dismissed, but Polk County (Fla.) Circuit Judge Harvey A. Kornstein denied the motion, writing in a ruling filed Monday that there is evidence suggesting Manning knew the 2000 book written by him and his father, Archie, included false statements about the trainer and an incident in February 1996 involving her and Peyton Manning. (Related items: Trainer has backers in lawsuit | Excerpt from Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy)
The trainer, Jamie Ann Naughright, disputes the contention in Manning's book that he dropped his pants and showed his backside to another athlete in the training room "thinking the trainer wasn't where she would see." In Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy, he wrote the act was "crude, maybe, but harmless" and that Naughright should be able to "shrug it off."
According to Naughright's deposition, Manning, while being examined by Naughright, placed his "naked butt and rectum" on her face.
In the book, Peyton Manning also wrote of Naughright, "I thought she had a vulgar mouth."
Naughright, who left Tennessee in 1997 as part of a settlement with the university related to the 1996 incident, alleges that characterization led to her losing her subsequent job at Florida Southern College, a United Methodist liberal arts school in Lakeland, Fla.
Archie Manning, ghost writer John Underwood and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. also have been named as defendants. The elder Manning is a former NFL quarterback.
The defendants' New York-based lawyer, Slade Metcalf, declined to comment on Monday's ruling or whether they will appeal. Naughright's lawyer, Robert Puterbaugh of Lakeland, also declined to comment.
The case has been set for trial March 29 in Bartow, the Polk County seat.
Naughright's lawsuit, filed in May 2002, seeks monetary damages.
Manning's image could take hit in suit
By Mel Antonen, USA TODAY
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who has one of the NFL's most sparkling marketing images, will have to continue defending himself against a defamation lawsuit, the record of which includes a graphic description of an act he is accused of committing against a female assistant trainer while he was at the University of Tennessee.
Peyton Manning says the act in question was harmless, but former Tenn. trainer Jamie Naughright has filed a defamation suit against him.
By Steve Nesius, AP
Manning asked for the suit to be dismissed, but Polk County (Fla.) Circuit Judge Harvey A. Kornstein denied the motion, writing in a ruling filed Monday that there is evidence suggesting Manning knew the 2000 book written by him and his father, Archie, included false statements about the trainer and an incident in February 1996 involving her and Peyton Manning. (Related items: Trainer has backers in lawsuit | Excerpt from Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy)
The trainer, Jamie Ann Naughright, disputes the contention in Manning's book that he dropped his pants and showed his backside to another athlete in the training room "thinking the trainer wasn't where she would see." In Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy, he wrote the act was "crude, maybe, but harmless" and that Naughright should be able to "shrug it off."
According to Naughright's deposition, Manning, while being examined by Naughright, placed his "naked butt and rectum" on her face.
In the book, Peyton Manning also wrote of Naughright, "I thought she had a vulgar mouth."
Naughright, who left Tennessee in 1997 as part of a settlement with the university related to the 1996 incident, alleges that characterization led to her losing her subsequent job at Florida Southern College, a United Methodist liberal arts school in Lakeland, Fla.
Archie Manning, ghost writer John Underwood and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. also have been named as defendants. The elder Manning is a former NFL quarterback.
The defendants' New York-based lawyer, Slade Metcalf, declined to comment on Monday's ruling or whether they will appeal. Naughright's lawyer, Robert Puterbaugh of Lakeland, also declined to comment.
The case has been set for trial March 29 in Bartow, the Polk County seat.
Naughright's lawsuit, filed in May 2002, seeks monetary damages.