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TATE v. BRADLEY

No. 87-4175.

837 F.2d 206 (1988)

Paul C. TATE, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John Ed BRADLEY and The Washington Post Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Tate, Jr., Mamou, La., Kenneth W. DeJean, Lafayette, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Kevin T. Baine, Jeffrey B. Kindler, Washington, D.C., Patrick T. Caffery, New Iberia, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before WISDOM, GARWOOD, and JONES, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Tate filed suit to rectify what he viewed as defamation by Appellees John Ed Bradley and The Washington Post in their depiction of him as a Mardi Gras merrymaker. The newspaper article, carried as a human-interest feature, was titled "Cajun Mardi Gras — The Native Returns for Raucous Rights" and recounted the events of Mardi Gras 1984 in the heart of Acadian Louisiana, from the perspective of a recently-departed...

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