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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hodge finds the superior court partially erred in its rulings in a more than 15-year dispute between the restaurant owners and their landlords in part alleging breach of contract, fraud and defamation, including allegations that one of the landlords publicly smeared the owners after a disagreement over their lease in which the landlord said he did not like the direction the restaurant was heading and wanted it to operate more like a "white, middle-class restaurant." In part, the portions of the superior court's order vacating the jury's verdict for the owners on their defamation claims as to one of the landlords are vacated and those portions of the jury's verdict are reinstated; the portion of the lower court's order vacating damages awarded for breach of contract is reversed; and the portion setting aside the jury's awards on other defamation claims and punitive damages is affirmed. On remand the superior court is ordered to determine post-verdict pre-judgment interest the owners are owed. Affirmed in part.