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TRANS WORLD ACCOUNTS, INC. v. ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. C-75-1166 WWS.

425 F.Supp. 814 (1977)

TRANS WORLD ACCOUNTS, INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff, v. The ASSOCIATED PRESS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California, Civil Division.

January 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Lawrence Bernheim, Spridgen, Barrett, Achor, Luckhardt, Anderson & James, Santa Rosa, Cal., for plaintiff.

David E. Monahan, Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, San Diego, Cal., for defendant Copley Press, Inc.

Rogers & Wells by Richard N. Winfield and Donald F. Luke, New York City, for Associated Press.

Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, by Bruce W. Sanford and Lawrence V. Lindberg, Cleveland, Ohio for United Press International.

Arthur B. Dunne, Robert M. Dunne, Dunne, Phelps & Mills, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Associated Press and United Press International, Inc.

ORDER GRANTING AND DENYING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

SCHWARZER, District Judge.

This is an action for defamation arising out of erroneous reports published by defendants of a complaint against plaintiff proposed to be issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Plaintiff Trans World Accounts, Inc. is a corporation conducting debt collecting and other operations in California and elsewhere. On January 3, 1975, the FTC distributed a press release announcing...

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