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FACTOR v. PENNINGTON PRESS, INC.

No. 59 C 1961.

230 F.Supp. 906 (1963)

John FACTOR, Plaintiff, v. PENNINGTON PRESS, INC., an Ohio corporation, et al., Defendants.

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

December 30, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. McGarr, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Julius S. Cordell, Bernard H. Sokol, Charles J. Barnhill, Narcisse A. Brown and Wm. F. McNally, Howard P. Robinson and George W. McBurney, Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, John Edward Dwork, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

DECKER, District Judge.

This is a lawsuit by John Factor (also called "Jake the Barber," which I mention only because the defendants keep referring to Mr. Factor both in the documents in this lawsuit and in the book, which is the subject matter of this litigation, by that alias) against the publisher, Pennington Press, the printer, American Lithograph Co., four book stores and two authors, Roger Touhy and Ray Brennan.

The suit charges libel of Factor by publication...

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