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DOWD v. CALABRESE

Nos. 80-0911, 80-3324, 80-3325 and 81-1266.

585 F.Supp. 430 (1984)

John M. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendants. John M. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendants. James A. DRINKHALL, Plaintiff, v. William M. KRAMER, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 26, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Green, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Michael T. Kenney, Santa Ana, Cal., Michael N. McCarty, Sara E. Lister, Togo D. West, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Washington, D.C., Floyd Abrams, Charles A. Gilman, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, Gregory L. Diskant, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, Richard L. Levie, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., John C. Martin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

The Dow Jones defendants1 request that the Court admit polygraph evidence in the forthcoming trial of this libel action. The request is opposed by plaintiffs.

According to the Dow Jones motion, Wall Street Journal reporter Jim Drinkhall was given two separate polygraph examinations in December 1980. The questions asked of him on these examinations related to the truth...

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