Tennessee high court rules against paper in defamation case

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a newspaper cannot use the state's fair report privilege law as a shield against a defamation lawsuit for a story that was based on a one-on-one interview with a police detective.The case concerns Jeffery Burke, who was accused in 2013 of stealing money from a White County football team’s cookie dough fundraiser.The original trial court judge found that the story fell under Tennessee’s fair report privilege, a law that shields report