
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 18, 1995                   TAG: 9508180098
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

MONTANA LOSES APPEAL

Joe Montana was turned down by the California Supreme Court in his challenge to a newspaper's right to sell posters showing him in the Super Bowl.

The court left intact an appellate ruling that said the San Jose Mercury News had a right to use the football star's photo without his permission, because the event was newsworthy and because the newspaper was advertising the quality of its coverage.

``A newspaper has a constitutional right to promote itself by reproducing its news stories,'' the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose ruled May 3. The ruling became binding on trial courts statewide when the state's high court denied review of the case.

Keywords:
FOOTBALL

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