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McBRIDE v. MERRELL DOW AND PHARMACEUTICALS INC.

No. 82-1786.

717 F.2d 1460 (1983)

William C. McBRIDE, Appellant, v. MERRELL DOW AND PHARMACEUTICALS INC., an Ohio Corporation, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. David Allen, Greenbelt, Md., for appellant.

Robert X. Perry, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellee American Association for the Advancement of Science and Gina Bari Kolata.

H. Thomas Howell, Baltimore, Md., with whom Sidney G. Leech, Baltimore, Md., was on the brief, for appellees Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al.

Before WRIGHT and BORK, Circuit Judges, and MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BORK.

BORK, Circuit Judge:

Appellant William G. McBride, an Australian expert in the field of teratology — the study of agents that can cause developmental abnormalities in embryos — challenges the dismissal of his defamation action for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. The alleged defamation was contained in a magazine article. Our jurisdiction rests entirely upon the parties...

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