Joplin City Manager Mark Rohr, who won a libel suit May 13 in Piqua, Ohio, but was awarded no damages, is asking for a new trial, according to today's Dayton Daily News.
Rohr, who served as city manager at Piqua before coming to Joplin, sued Piqua bar owner Charles "Mo" Gustin, claiming he defamed him in a May 2002 letter to state officials who were considering revoking Gustin's liquor license, according to the Daily News article.
In the new trial request, the article said, Rohr's lawyer, Grant Kerber, says the award of zero is less than the "nominal damages" to which Judge Jeffrey Welbaum said Rohr was entitled. Kerber also noted that the eight jurors had not signed the verdict forms properly, writing "nominal damages," instead of their names.
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