IN RE SELCRAIG

No. 82-1067.

705 F.2d 789 (1983)

In re Bruce SELCRAIG, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Leatherbury, Charles L. Babcock, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

John J. Watkins, School of Law, Baylor University, Waco, Tex., for amicus curiae Soc. of Professional Journalists, etc.

Frank M. Gilstrap, Arlington, Tex., for Dr. Paul Trautman.

J. Carlisle DeHay, Jr., David W. Townend, John T. Sears, Dallas, Tex., for all defendants.

Before WISDOM, RUBIN and TATE, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A discharged school official, seeking to recover compensatory and punitive damages from a school district and two of its officers for publicizing false and stigmatizing charges against him, contends that the two officers disseminated the defamatory charges by secretly imparting them to a newspaper reporter and that, as a result, the reporter made open inquiries that resulted in publication of...

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