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ALIOTO v. COWLES COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

No. 77-2999.

623 F.2d 616 (1980)

Joseph L. ALIOTO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COWLES COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

July 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Reuben, Reuben & Proctor, Chicago, Ill., argued, for defendant-appellant; Charles W. Kenady, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., on brief.

Lawrence Alioto, Alioto & Alioto, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWNING and TANG, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.

BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity suit for libel brought by the ex-mayor of San Francisco against the publisher of LOOK Magazine. The suit is based on an article that appeared in LOOK in September 1969 entitled, "The Web that Links San Francisco's Mayor Alioto and the Mafia: A LOOK report on the private Joseph Alioto and his relationships with organized crime." The facts are set out in our previous opinion, 519 F.2d 777

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