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DAVIS v. SCHUCHAT

No. 72-1799.

510 F.2d 731 (1975)

Leonard DAVIS v. Theodor SCHUCHAT, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 22, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lanny J. Davis, Washington, D. C., with whom Robert A. W. Boraks, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Morris B. Abram, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Leonard H. Becker and Daniel P. Levitt, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Clark R. Mollenhoff, Washington, D. C., filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and McGOWAN and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

The District Court, sitting without a jury, awarded damages in an action for slander. This appeal from that judgment raises a question as to the degree of protection afforded by the First Amendment to one who describes himself, as does appellant, to be an investigative journalist. There are also issues as to the standard of liability, if liability is to be imposed at all, and the propriety of punitive damages. For the reasons hereinafter appearing...

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