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TROTTER v. JACK ANDERSON ENTERPRISES, INC.

No. 86-2542.

818 F.2d 431 (1987)

John C. TROTTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JACK ANDERSON ENTERPRISES, INC. and Jack Anderson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith G. Fabrizi, Trotter, Trotter & Fabrizi, Houston, Tex., James L. Branton, San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

David J. Branson, Paul Getz Levenson, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL, and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A Texas lawyer, who was president of a Guatemalan soft drink bottling company, sues a newspaper columnist for libel, contending that he was defamed by two of the columnist's articles. The articles described anti-union violence at the bottling plant in Guatemala and identified the plant management, and the Texas lawyer in particular, as the orchestrators of the violence. The district court granted the columnist's summary judgment motion...

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