APOSTLE v. BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. G82-721.

572 F.Supp. 897 (1983)

George APOSTLE and Joan Apostle, Plaintiffs, v. BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

January 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Ladas, Muskegon, Mich., John A. Burgess, Berkeley, Cal., for plaintiffs.

William M. Newman, Landman, Luyendyk, Latimer, Clink & Robb, Muskegon, Mich., for defendant.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

On September 17, 1982, Plaintiffs filed this diversity action against Defendant Booth Newspapers, Inc., alleging that two newspaper articles had falsely implied that Plaintiffs and their businesses were connected with prostitution in the Muskegon Heights business district. The articles in question appeared on page 1B of the September 20, 1981 edition of the Muskegon Chronicle, a newspaper owned and published by Defendant....

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