BILNEY v. EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CO.

No. 21, September Term, 1979.

43 Md. App. 560 (1979)

406 A.2d 652

JOHN D. BILNEY ET AL. v. THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence W. Sharp and Walter H. Madden with whom were Thomas D. Murphy and Madden & Murphy on the brief, for appellants.

Stuart F. Pierson, with whom were James A. McGuire and Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson on the brief, for appellees The Evening Star Newspaper Company, James Bellows, Richard Heller, Eric Blum and Theodore Beitchman. Edward J. Smith, Jr., with whom were David H. Martin and Santarelli & Gimer on the brief, for appellees Mark Kram and Richard Burke. Submitted on brief by Carl E. Tuerk, Jr., and Cooper, Beckman & Tuerk for other appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, WILNER and WEANT, JJ.


WILNER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellants are six young men who, in 1977, were undergraduate students at the University of Maryland (College Park Campus) and members of the University's varsity basketball team. Feeling aggrieved by articles appearing in the November 1, 1977, editions of the Washington Star and the student publication, the Diamondback, they sued the publishers of those newspapers and a number of individuals who allegedly...

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