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KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL MANSOUR FAISSAL FAHD AL TALAL v. FANNING

Civ. No. C 80-1869 RPA.

506 F.Supp. 186 (1980)

KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL MANSOUR FAISSAL FAHD AL TALAL, Concerned Black Americans In Support of Africa and the Middle East, Islamic Centers of America, Akbar Institute, Muslim League of Canada, Plaintiffs, v. David FANNING, Anthony Thomas, ATV of England, Lawrence K. Grossman, President of Public Broadcasting System, KQED Television Station, Public Broadcasting System, Does One Through One Hundred, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

September 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour, Faissal Fahd Al Talal, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Stephen V. Bomse, Steven M. Block, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

OPINION

AGUILAR, District Judge.

This is an action in which the plaintiffs claim that they consist of a class of "nearly one billion persons." They seek damages in the amount of twenty billion dollars because of the national television broadcast of the film "Death of a Princess." Plaintiffs include "followers of the Islamic faith throughout the world" and "Americans who are committed to a respect for world and Islamic traditions" (Complaint, Paragraph I...

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