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WALDBAUM v. FAIRCHILD PUBLICATIONS, INC.

No. 79-1407.

627 F.2d 1287 (1980)

Eric WALDBAUM, Appellant, v. FAIRCHILD PUBLICATIONS, INC.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1980.

Certiorari Denied October 14, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell D. Turnbull, with whom Richard P. Shlakman, Washington, D. C., was on brief, for appellant.

Henry J. Formon, Jr., New York City, for appellee.

Before TAMM and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, and HAROLD H. GREENE, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.

Certiorari Denied October 14, 1980. See 101 S.Ct. 266.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

In this action we must determine when an individual not a public official has left the relatively safe harbor that the law of defamation provides for private persons and has become a public figure within the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323<...

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