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ARCAND v. EVENING CALL PUB. CO.

No. 77-1307.

567 F.2d 1163 (1977)

Lionel G. ARCAND et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. The EVENING CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred B. Cenedella, III, Milford, Mass., with whom Robert B. Calagione, Milford, Mass., was on brief, for appellants.

Neil Sugarman, Boston, Mass., with whom Sugarman & Sugarman, P. C., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, and CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal raises the question whether defendants' allegedly defamatory newspaper column comment made sufficient reference to plaintiffs-appellants to withstand a motion to dismiss the complaint. The case belongs in the ancient but not overpopulated genre of group libel.1

Plaintiffs are the twenty-one members of the Bellingham, Massachusetts, Police Department. Defendants are, severally, the Rhode Island writer...

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