BEARY v. WEST PUBLISHING CO.

No. 927, Docket 84-7965.

763 F.2d 66 (1985)

Patrick BEARY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Beary, Jamaica, N.Y., pro se.

Laura B. Hoguet, New York City, Vance K. Opperman and James E. Schatz, Opperman & Paquin, Minneapolis, Mn., (White & Case, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before MANSFIELD, KEARSE and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge.

Patrick Beary, an attorney, appeals from an order and judgment of the Eastern District of New York, I. Leo Glasser, Judge, granting defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing Beary's diversity libel action for $5,000,000 damages based on defendant's publication of an opinion authored by Judge William D. Friedmann of the Civil Court of the City of New York. We affirm.

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