Post-Game Coverage

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A sports radio host’s comments about a referee’s performance in a University of Kentucky tournament game are protected under the First Amendment, the Sixth Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/radiostation.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>. The referee had claimed the radio station’s post-game coverage of him caused his roofing company to lose business. </span>

CINCINNATI – A sports radio host’s comments about a referee’s performance in a University of Kentucky tournament game are protected under the First Amendment, the Sixth Circuit ruled . The referee had claimed the radio station’s post-game coverage of him caused his roofing company to lose business.

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