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JANKLOW v. NEWSWEEK, INC.

No. 84-1452.

788 F.2d 1300 (1986)

William JANKLOW, Appellant, v. NEWSWEEK, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Butler, Rapid City, S.D., for appellant.

Lawrence L. Piersol, Sioux Falls, S.D., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY, ROSS, McMILLIAN, ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON, FAGG, BOWMAN and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, en banc.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

William Janklow, the Governor of South Dakota, filed this defamation action against Newsweek magazine based on an article in the weekly's February 21, 1983, issue about American Indian activist Dennis Banks. The article, "Dennis Banks's Last Stand," purports to give a history of the relationship between Banks, who fled the state in the mid-1970's after his conviction on two felony counts, and Janklow, who while Attorney General prosecuted...

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