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CIANCI v. NEW TIMES PUB. CO.

No. 79 Civ. 0828.

486 F.Supp. 368 (1979)

Vincent A. CIANCI, Jr., Plaintiff, v. NEW TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, New Times Communications Corp., MCA, Inc., George A. Hirsch, Jonathan Z. Larsen and Craig Waters, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

December 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kronish, Lieb, Shainswit, Weiner & Hellman by Seymour Shainswit, Edward M. Spiro, New York City, for plaintiff.

Satterlee & Stephens by Robert M. Callagy, James F. Rittinger, John T. Schmidt, Nancy K. Cassidy, New York City, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Defendants have moved, pursuant to Rule 12(b) and Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for an order dismissing the complaint in this action.

This libel action concerns the publication of an article about plaintiff Vincent "Buddy" Cianci in the July 24, 1978, issue of New Times magazine entitled, "Buddy We Hardly Knew Ya." Cianci was at the time of publication, and is presently, mayor of...

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