This is a motion to dismiss the complaint at the close of the plaintiff's case in the trial of an action for libel.
Plaintiff, Dr. Linus C. Pauling, is a world famous scientist, winner of a Nobel Prize for chemistry and of a Nobel Peace Prize. Defendants are the corporate owner, and the individual publisher and editor of a fortnightly magazine called National Review.
There are two causes of action based on...
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