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DOWD v. CALABRESE

Civ. A. Nos. 80-0911, 80-0912, 80-3324, 80-3325 and 81-1266.

589 F.Supp. 1206 (1984)

John M. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendants. John M. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendants. James A. DRINKHALL, Plaintiff, v. William M. KRAMER, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 30, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Green, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Michael T. Kenney, Santa Ana, Cal., Michael M. McCarty, Washington, D.C., Sara E. Lister, Togo D. West, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Washington, D.C., Floyd Abrams, Charles A. Gilman, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, Gregory L. Diskant, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, Richard L. Levie, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

These are consolidated actions revolving around several articles published in 1979 by the Wall Street Journal. The principal lawsuits1 charge that the Dow Jones Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal; Lawrence O'Donnell, managing editor of that newspaper; and Jim Drinkhall, one of its reporters, libelled William M. Kramer and John M. Dowd, who at the time the articles...

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