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CERVANTES v. TIME, INC.

No. 71-1555.

464 F.2d 986 (1972)

Alfonso J. CERVANTES, Appellant, v. TIME, INC., and Denny Walsh, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1972.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer A. Rosecan, Rosecan & Popkin, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Harold Medina, Jr., New York City, and D. Jeff Lance, Robert S. Allen, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, and MEHAFFY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

Alfonso J. Cervantes is the mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri. In May 1970 there appeared in appellee's Life magazine an article of 87 paragraphs accusing the mayor of maintaining "business and personal ties with the gangsters that operate in his city." The article was entitled "The Mayor, The Mob and The Lawyer," and captioned with a comment explaining: "Both the mayor and his new crime commissioner have personal ties to the underworld." The...

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