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McMANUS v. DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC.

No. 78 Civil 377.

513 F.Supp. 1383 (1981)

Sean McMANUS, Plaintiff, v. DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., Russell Warren Howe and Sarah Hays Trott, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

May 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Dwyer & Bernstien, New York City, for plaintiff; Frank Durkan, New York City, of counsel.

Satterlee & Stephens, New York City, for defendant Doubleday & Co., Inc.; Robert M. Callagy and Nancy K. Cassidy, New York City, of counsel.

Interdonato, Lombard, Reilly & Comstock, Washington, D. C., for defendant Sarah Hays Trott; James T. Reilly, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Mark Gilder, Silver Springs, Md., for defendant Russell Warren Howe.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Father Sean McManus, a Roman Catholic priest of the Redemptorist Order in Baltimore, Maryland, commenced this action against the defendants Russell Warren Howe and Sarah Hays Trott, the authors of a nonfictional book entitled "The Power Peddlers," and Doubleday & Company, Inc., the publisher, charging them with libel. The book, published in February 1977, is an investigative report of foreign lobbies...

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