September 17th, 1971
Determination 1: Rep. Ernest Lindstrom v. Union Advocate
Ernest A. Lindstrom, state representative and House majority leader, complained that the newspaper was inaccurate and defamatory to him in two stories it published about alleged influence buying at the State Legislature. He claimed the paper failed to make a reasonable effort to verify the accuracy of the two stories it ran in consecutive issues. The Union Advocate is a weekly paper serving primarily organized labor in the greater St. Paul area.