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EDWARDS v. NATIONAL AUDUBON SOC., INC.

No. 73 Civ. 1727 (CMM).

423 F.Supp. 516 (1976)

J. Gordon EDWARDS, Ph.D., et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

December 1, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rothwell, Cappello & Berndtson, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs; Thomas A. Rothwell, Arthur H. Berndtson, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for defendant The New York Times Co., Inc.; Floyd Abrams, Eugene R. Scheiman, Ruth D. MacNaughton, New York City, of counsel.

METZNER, District Judge.

Defendant The New York Times Company (the Times) moves for judgment notwithstanding the verdict rendered by the jury in favor of the plaintiffs in this action. Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 50(b).

This is a libel action in which the jury awarded compensatory damages, but denied punitive damages, in favor of each of the plaintiffs against the Times and defendant Roland Clement, a vice president of the National Audubon Society, Inc. (the Society...

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