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O'REILLY v. NEW YORK TIMES CO.

No. 439, Docket 82-7530.

692 F.2d 863 (1982)

John T. O'REILLY, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Contemporary Mission, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. The NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reverend John T. O'Reilly, pro se.

John G. Koeltl, New York City (Debevoise & Plimpton, James C. Goodale, Mitchell A. Karlan, Robert P. Connolly, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

In this action in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which federal jurisdiction is predicated on diverse citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332, Contemporary Mission, Inc., a not-for-profit organization of Catholic priests based in Westport, Connecticut, and four of its five member-priests, including appellant Rev. John T. O'Reilly, have sued The New York Times Company for libel. The alleged libel, printed in the Times...

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