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DONOFRIO v. CAMP

No. 71-1075.

470 F.2d 428 (1972)

Thomas F. DONOFRIO, Appellant, v. William B. CAMP.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Barney J. Keren, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Walter H. Fleischer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Mr. L. Patrick Gray, III, Deputy Atty. Gen., at the time the brief was filed, and Mr. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and McGOWAN, Circuit Judge, and FRANK A. KAUFMAN, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.

PER CURIAM:

The trial judge refused to grant appellant's request for a continuance before ruling on appellee's motion for dismissal or summary judgment. He then dismissed appellant Donofrio's defamation suit against the Comptroller of the Currency, William Camp. In his complaint, Donofrio alleged that Camp, on various occasions between 1966 and 1968, had made statements linking Donofrio with the underworld or Cosa Nostra. All but one of appellant's allegations...

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