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ROOD v. FINNEY

No. 13023.

418 So.2d 1 (1982)

Floyd ROOD v. Peter FINNEY, Jr. and United Press International, Incorporated.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied October 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. H. Gertler, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson, Boisfontaine & Nathan, Robert E. Winn and J. David Forsyth, New Orleans, and Baker & Hostetler, Bruce W. Sanford and Lee Levine, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before GULOTTA, GARRISON and BARRY, JJ.

GARRISON, Judge.

In August, 1979 plaintiff-appellant Floyd Rood filed this suit against United Press International (UPI) and Peter Paul Finney, Jr., a UPI staff reporter in New Orleans. Plaintiff sought $310,000.00 in damages for a statement printed in one version of a UPI news article, the original of which was written by Finney, concerning Rood's unusual fund raising activities. The particular version of the news story involved was one of several rewrites done by...

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