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O'NEAL v. COWLES MAGAZINES

No. 12311.

225 F.2d 43 (1955)

Emmet O'NEAL, Appellant, v. COWLES MAGAZINES, Inc., Fletcher Knebel, and Jack Wilson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Camden R. McAtee and LaVern R. Dilweg, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Charles M. Irelan and T. Bruce Fuller, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John F. Harding, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, New York City, with whom Mr. Hugh Lynch, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants in a libel suit, after jury trial.

It appears that the plaintiff O'Neal, a Member of Congress at the time, was described in an article published in Look Magazine as having asked the Department of Justice to give "careful consideration" to a petition for commutation of sentence addressed to the President by James J. Gavin, then incarcerated in a Federal prison. The commutation of...

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