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LORENTZ v. WESTINGHOUSE ELEC. CORP.

Civ. A. No. C.A. 78-213.

472 F.Supp. 946 (1979)

Pare LORENTZ, an individual, Plaintiff, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc., a corporation, Radio Station KDKA, a business entity, and John Cigna, an Individual, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Kenly Webster, Kennedy & Webster, Washington, D. C., Harold R. Schmidt, and Edward C. Schmidt, Rose, Schmidt, Dixon, Hasley, Whyte & Hardesty, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

David J. Armstrong, and Charles Kenrick, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, Pa., for respondents.

OPINION

SNYDER, Judge.

Pare Lorentz, a motion picture writer and director, seeks money damages from Radio Station KDKA, its talk show host John Cigna, KDKA's owner, Westinghouse Broadcasting, Inc. (WBC), and its parent corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEC), for defamatory remarks made during a talk show broadcast on March 1, 1977. Cross Motions for Summary Judgment will be denied.

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