Metropolitan News-Enterprise
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | Metropolitan News Company |
| Publisher | Roger M. Grace and Jo-Ann W. Grace |
| Editor | Roger M. Grace |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 210 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90012 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 2,500 (as of 2002) |
| ISSN | 0897-2281 |
| OCLC number | 7024015 |
| Website | www |
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, also known as MetNews or Met News, is a small daily legal newspaper published in Los Angeles, California.
The Enterprise newspaper was founded in 1901 and the Metropolitan News in 1945. The two newspapers merged to become Metropolitan News-Enterprise in 1987. The newspaper's co-publishers are lawyers Roger Grace and Jo-Ann Grace, a husband-and-wife team.
MetNews is well known for its thorough coverage of judicial campaigns in the Los Angeles area. For example, in 2008 the newspaper determined that William Daniel Johnson, a candidate for Los Angeles County Superior Court, was "a white supremacist who has advocated the deportation of non-whites from the United States."
The newspaper began honoring selected legal professionals as “Persons of the Year" in 1983. Since then, honorees have included Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Steve Cooley, George Deukmejian, Ronald M. George, Mildred Lillie, Dan Lungren, Stanley Mosk, and Deanell Reece Tacha.
In 1992, the newspaper filed a lawsuit against the presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that the judge falsely imprisoned three employees for distributing a parody memorandum supposedly signed by the judge. In turn, the judge countersued the newspaper for defamation. After appeals, the lawsuit by the judge was eventually decided in favor of the newspaper; in 1994, the newspaper received $40,000 in a settlement for its lawsuit against the judge.
MetNews sued the Daily Journal Corporation, whose chairman is Charlie Munger, in 1997 for predatory pricing. In specific, the allegation was that the Daily Journal sold legal notices by companies such as Fannie Mae at a price below cost. In 2000, the case was resolved in favor of the Daily Journal.
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