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HILLMAN v. METROMEDIA, INC.

Civ. No. B-76-1171.

452 F.Supp. 727 (1978)

David H. HILLMAN et al. v. METROMEDIA, INC., etc.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

May 8, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Michael, Bethesda, Md., for plaintiffs.

John H. Mudd, H. Thomas Howell, Robert E. Scott, Jr., and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BLAIR, District Judge.

This is a diversity action for libel in which plaintiffs, David H. Hillman and Melvin Lenkin, on behalf of Kent B Partnership trading as Kent Village Apartments, seek to recover damages from defendant Metromedia, Inc. Their claim is based on alleged statements made by a news commentator during defendant's television broadcast of its ten o'clock news program on April 19, 1976.

Suit was initially filed in...

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