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SMITH v. BUTLER

Civ. A. No. 80-2823.

507 F.Supp. 952 (1981)

Carl M. SMITH v. Mark BUTLER, Ruth Tallmadge, Dave Hickey of the Suburban Waynee Times, Charles A. Connell, Robert H. Adams of the Radnor Township Police Department.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl M. Smith, pro se.

John Churchman Smith, Joseph Patrick Connor, III, Media, Pa., for municipal defendants.

Garland D. Cherry, Sr., Media, Pa., for newspaper defendants.

MEMORANDUM

LUONGO, District Judge.

Plaintiff in this civil rights action is a state prisoner. Defendants are reporters and staff members of the Suburban Wayne Times newspaper, and officers of the Radnor township police department. Smith alleges that he was defamed by the defendants when two stories appeared in the Wayne Times stating that Smith had been arrested as a suspect in a series of armed robberies and a sexual assault which occurred during one of...

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