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DAMERON v. WASHINGTON MAGAZINE, INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-1248.

575 F.Supp. 1575 (1983)

Merle W. DAMERON, Plaintiff, v. WASHINGTON MAGAZINE, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. Biddle, Sally A. Buckman, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Michael H. McConihe, Hanson, O'Brien, Birney & Butler, Washington, D.C., Peter F. Axelrad, David E. Beller, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

This is a libel action. As part of a story on the ill-fated Air Florida flight which crashed into a bridge over the Potomac, Washingtonian magazine wrote an article dealing in a general vein with airplane crashes and air safety. As part of that article, the magazine published this statement:

Since then—despite hair-raising talk among controllers about computer mal-functions, fatigue-induced...

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