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WALKER v. PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY

No. 18994.

394 F.2d 800 (1968)

Edwin A. WALKER, Appellant, v. The PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emerson Baetz, Alton, Ill., for appellant.

Robert B. Hoemeke, of Evans & Hoemeke, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee; Robert D. Evans was with him on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge, and VAN PELT, District Judge.

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity defamation case, instituted by Major General (retired) Edwin A. Walker against The Pulitzer Publishing Company, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and owner of television station KSD-TV at Saint Louis, Chief Judge Harper granted Pulitzer's Civil Rule 56 motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff Walker appeals.

The litigation is yet another of many defamation cases which...

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