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WILD v. ST. PAUL COMPANIES, INC.

No. 79-1508.

612 F.2d 341 (1979)

John Julian WILD, M.D., Ph.D., Appellant, v. ST. PAUL COMPANIES, INC., a corporation and its principal subsidiaries, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company and St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company, Ronald M. Hubbs, Carl B. Drake, Jr., Robert J. Sheran, James C. Otis, Oscar R. Knutson, Wendell R. Anderson, Jack Davies, Gerald R. Dillon, Richard E. Klein, and Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, a Delaware corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Malcolm Williams, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.

Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard B. Allyn, Sol. Gen., and Leroy C. Paddock, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., filed brief for appellees, Robert J. Sheran, James C. Otis, Oscar R. Knutson, Wendell R. Anderson, Jack Davies, Gerald R. Dillon and Richard E. Klein.

James M. Samples and John P. Borger, Minneapolis, Minn., filed brief for appellee, Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co.

Thomas P. Kane and Paul R. Hannah, St. Paul, Minn., filed brief for appellees, St. Paul Companies, St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co., St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co., Ronald M. Hubbs and Carl B. Drake, Jr.

Before LAY, BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

John Julian Wild appeals from an order dismissing his civil rights complaint against multiple defendants; Wild also appeals the grant of summary judgment entered in the same action in favor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.

In 1972 a jury awarded Wild over $16,000,000 in an action for defamation and breach of contract against the Minnesota Foundation and the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. The foundations appealed to the Minnesota Supreme...

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