Tag: Kai Spears

Alabama Supreme Court limits New York Times reporter’s privilege in former Alabama basketball walk-on Kai Spears’ defamation lawsuit

The Alabama Supreme Court advised a federal judge on Friday that the state’s “shield statute” doesn’t protect a reporter from having to reveal some information related to a source.

State Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in former Alabama basketball walk-on Kai Spears’ defamation lawsuit against New York Times

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Montgomery in a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by former Alabama basketball walk-on Kai Spears against the New York Times.

'Demonstrably false': Alabama's Kai Spears, father release statements refuting NYT's reporting on fatal Tuscaloosa strip shooting involvement

Kai Spears and his father, the athletics director for Marshall University, have come out with statements of their own calling the New York Times' reporting "demonstrably false" and "100% inaccurate."