CEPEDA v. COWLES MAGAZINES AND BROADCASTING, INC.

No. 18862.

328 F.2d 869 (1964)

Orlando CEPEDA, Appellant, v. COWLES MAGAZINES AND BROADCASTING, INC., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis & Stein, and Marvin Lewis, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Cooper, White & Cooper, Sheldon G. Cooper, Charles W. Kenady, J. Raymond Healy and Eugene J. McDonald, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before CHAMBERS and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges, and MADDEN, Judge of the Court of Claims.


MADDEN, Judge.

This suit for libel was brought by Orlando Cepeda against Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting, Inc., because of an article about Cepeda published in the defendant's weekly magazine, Look, in its May 21, 1963, issue. The author of the article is described by the appellee, hereinafter called the defendant, as "a nationally recognized sportswriter and baseball authority." The suit was filed by the plaintiff in the...

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