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EDWARDS v. ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 74-2018.

512 F.2d 258 (1975)

M. C. EDWARDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The ASSOCIATED PRESS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Edds, Ralph E. Rood, Columbus, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Threadgill, Columbus, Miss., Walter S. Mack, Jr., Richard N. Winfield, New York City, for defendant-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.

LYNNE, District Judge:

This case raises, once more, the question of the length of Mississippi's longarm statute. The trial court concluded that the Mississippi courts would not require defendant Associated Press ("AP") to submit to their jurisdiction on the facts presented here. 371 F.Supp. 333 (N.D.Miss.1974). We disagree and hold, furthermore, that the statute as construed does not offend the due process clause of the Fourteenth...

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