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GOSS v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

No. 61 C 1223.

204 F.Supp. 268 (1962)

Thomas D. GOSS, also known as Thomas Duggan, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol R. Friedman, I. S. Friedman and Edwin R. Armstrong, Chicago, Ill., for Thomas D. Goss, also known as Thomas Duggan, plaintiff.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago, Ill., for State of Illinois, and others, Thomas A. Hett, Asst. State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

PARSONS, District Judge.

Thomas D. Goss, a citizen of the United States, during 1955 appeared regularly five nights a week on a late evening television broadcast from a Chicago station entitled the "Tom Duggan Show". It was a form of conversation-commentary program. It dealt heavily in criticisms and sarcasms, and often included unrestrained attacks on public officials and other people involved in current news stories.

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