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FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, ETC. v. VERLAG

No. 74-1789.

536 F.2d 429 (1976)

The FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., Appellant, v. Heinrich Bauer VERLAG et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel H. Seymour, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Arlington, Va., was on the brief for appellant.

Irvin B. Nathan, Washington, D. C., with whom Edgar H. Brenner and Werner Kronstein, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee German Language Publications, Inc.

Before McGOWAN and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, and McMILLAN, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action the Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D. C.1 sued (1) the author, editor, publisher, and distributor of an allegedly defamatory article which appeared in the July 1973 edition of the German-language magazine Neue Revue, and (2) an official of the West German federal criminal investigating authority who allegedly...

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