MESSENGER EX REL. MESSENGER v. GRUNER + JAHR PRINTING AND PUBLISHING

Nos. 98-7767, 98-7865.

175 F.3d 262 (1999)

Jamie MESSENGER, an infant under the age of eighteen, by her mother and "next friend" Donna MESSENGER, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. GRUNER + JAHR PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, also known as Gruner & Jahr USA, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Sally Lee, as editor-in-chief of "YM, Young & Modern," Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

April 28, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Sugarman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY (Jennifer Sclar, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Mitchell A. Stein, Lieberman & Nowak, LLP, New York, NY (Arthur M. Lieberman and Stephen J. King, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

(Slade R. Metcalf and Trina R. Hunn, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld, LLP, New York, NY; Jerry S. Birenz, Victor A. Kovner, and Laura Handman, Magazine Publishers of America, Inc., New York, NY; Rene P. Milam, Newspaper Association of America, Inc., Vienna, VA; R. Bruce Rich, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY; and Henry L. Baumann, Jack N. Goodman, and Steven A. Bookshester, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amici curiae Magazine Publishers of America, Inc., Newspaper Association of America, Inc., The Association of American Publishers, Inc., and the National Association of Broadcasters).

Before: McLAUGHLIN, STRAUB, KEITH, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

Certificate to the New York Court of Appeals pursuant to Local Rule § 0.27 and New York Compilation of Codes, Rules & Regulations, title 22, § 500.17(b).

Gruner + Jahr Printing and Publishing appeals from a judgment after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lewis A. Kaplan, Judge) awarding damages to Jamie Messenger pursuant to New York Civil Rights Law §§ 50 and 51. Gruner...

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