HUDNALL v. SELLNER

Nos. 81-2109, 82-1565.

800 F.2d 377 (1986)

George Albert HUDNALL; George Albert Hudnall and Carol Hudnall, his wife; James Robert Panagoulis, Appellees, v. John Eugene SELLNER, Appellant. George Albert HUDNALL; George Albert Hudnall and Carol Hudnall, his wife; James Robert Panagoulis, Appellees, v. John Eugene SELLNER, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger M. Witten (Bruce M. Berman, Michael Dreeben, James Sottile, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C. on brief), for appellant.

George F. Pappas (H. Russell Smouse, Baltimore, Md. on brief), for appellees George Albert Hudnall and Carol Hudnall.

Thomas J. Scanlon, Washington, D.C. on brief, for appellee James Robert Panagoulis.

Before HALL, PHILLIPS, and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

John Sellner appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding substantial compensatory and punitive damages against him and in favor of plaintiffs George Hudnall, Carol Hudnall, and James Panagoulis in these consolidated diversity actions for defamation, loss of consortium, and malicious prosecution. Sellner, by court-appointed counsel, argues that the judgment should be set...

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