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BURNETT v. NATIONAL ENQUIRER, INC.

Docket No. 66447.

144 Cal.App.3d 991 (1983)

193 Cal. Rptr. 206

CAROL BURNETT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NATIONAL ENQUIRER, INC., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

July 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Williams & Connolly, John G. Kester, Harold Ungar, Selvin & Weiner and Paul P. Selvin for Defendant and Appellant.

Jack C. Landau, Judy D. Lynch, Robert S. Becker, Pierson, Ball & Dowd and J. Laurent Scharff as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Barry B. Langberg, Stephen S. Monroe, Paul S. Ablon, Richard P. Towne and Hayes & Hume for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ROTH, P.J.

On March 2, 1976, appellant caused to appear in its weekly publication, the National Enquirer, a "gossip column" headlined "Carol Burnett and Henry K. in Row," wherein a four-sentence item specified in its entirety that: "In a Washington restaurant, a boisterous Carol Burnett had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger. Then she traipsed around the place...

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