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GEIGER v. DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC.

No. 83-1202.

719 F.2d 515 (1983)

Rod GEIGER, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. DELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Sutherland, Boston, Mass., with whom Rosencranz & Sutherland, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Robert M. Callagy, New York City, with whom Satterlee & Stephens, New York City, was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Rod Geiger brings this appeal from an order of the district court, 560 F.Supp. 12, granting summary judgment for the defendant publishing companies in Geiger's diversity defamation suit. In order to set the stage for this appeal we must return to Italy in 1945, to the dawn of the neo-realist film movement. Geiger, a private stationed with the United States Army in Rome, met the Italian film directors...

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