BELO BROADCASTING CORP. v. CLARK

Nos. 80-2169, 80-2239.

654 F.2d 423 (1981)

BELO BROADCASTING CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jesse CLARK, Defendant-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Billy Wayne CLAYTON, et al., Defendants, KDFW-TV, Inc. and Quin Mathews, Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

August 28, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, Stephen Philbin, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mary L. Sinderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Charles L. Babcock, Stephen Philbin, Dallas, Tex., for movants-appellants.

Before CHARLES CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

As the result of a Federal Bureau of Investigation "sting" operation (the "Brilab" investigation) concerned with alleged bribery in the awarding of state employee insurance contracts, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, two Austin, Texas, attorneys, and a Houston, Texas, labor official, L. G. Moore, were indicted and the first three tried and acquitted in Houston on a number of federal offenses.1

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