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MONCRIEF v. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER CO.

No. 85-6153.

807 F.2d 217 (1986)

Frederick W. MONCRIEF, Appellant, v. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER CO.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel P. Bennett, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

N. Frank Wiggins, with whom Richard M. Schmidt, Jr. and Ian D. Volner, Washington, D.C., were on brief for appellee.

Before BORK and BUCKLEY, Circuit Judges, and HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BORK.

BORK, Circuit Judge:

The issue presented in this appeal is whether a nonresident newspaper publisher that sends an allegedly libelous article into the District of Columbia is thereby within the reach of the District of Columbia's "long-arm statute," D.C.Code Ann. § 13-423 (1981),1 and thus subject to the court's jurisdiction. The district court held that the jurisdictional...

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