RAMADA INNS, INC. v. DOW JONES & CO., INC.


523 A.2d 968 (1986)

RAMADA INNS, INC., Hotel Ramada of Nevada, Admar of New Jersey, Inc. and Ramada Hotel Operation Company, Plaintiffs, v. DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC. Defendant.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: December 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Alton Tybout, of Tybout, Redfearn, Casarino & Pell, and Thomas C. Green, of Sharp, Green & Lankford, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Edmund N. Carpenter, II, of Richards, Layton & Finger, and Gregory L. Diskant, of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for defendant.


TAYLOR, Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to take the deposition of two attorneys, Gregory L. Diskant, Esq., who is head counsel for Dow Jones & Company, Inc. [defendant] in this suit, and Robert S. Sack, Esq., who is general counsel of defendant.

This is a libel suit growing out of articles written by James A. Drinkhall and John Andrews and published by defendant in the Wall Street Journal [Journal]. Plaintiffs seek, by...

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