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COOK v. HOUSTON POST

No. 78-1342.

616 F.2d 791 (1980)

C. R. "Jake" COOK, T. W. Cook and Lee DeForke, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The HOUSTON POST, Ralph Williams, Joseph Perino, Marvin Kent and Terry Collins, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Tonkin, Houston, Tex., for C. R. "Jake" Cook.

Michael Maness, Houston, Tex., for C. R. "Jake" Cook and Lee DeForke.

Anthony J. P. Farris, Alvin A. Horne, Houston, Tex., for T. W. Cook.

John L. McConn, Jr., Richard A. Sheehy, Charles B. Holm, Houston, Tex., for the Houston Post and Ralph Williams.

William E. Heitkamp, Houston, Tex., for Joseph Perino.

Clyde F. Dewitt, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Tex., for Marvin Keny and Terry Collins.

Before AINSWORTH and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge.

It was in October of 1972 that Williams, an investigative reporter for The Houston Post, began to report and cause to be published stories about the alleged corruption in the Houston Fire Department. The Grand Jury investigation and resultant publicity concerning official misconduct had been in progress several months before Collins, an Assistant District Attorney for Harris County, was assigned to the case. It was in March of...

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