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GORMAN v. SWAGGART

No. CA-8757.

524 So.2d 915 (1988)

Marvin GORMAN and Marvin Gorman Ministries, Inc. v. Jimmy SWAGGART, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, Inc., William D. Treeby, The First Assembly of God Church of New Orleans, Louisiana, Inc., Louisiana District Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc., the General Council of the Assemblies of God, Lakeview Christian Center, Canal St. Assembly of God, Inc., Michael Indest, Tom Miller, Cecil Janway, Waldo Risner, Allan McDonnel and Don Brankel.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied May 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunter W. Lundy, Lundy & Dwight, Lake Charles, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas Dee Frasier, Frasier & Frasier, Tulsa, Okl., Duplass, Witman & Zwain, Gary M. Zwain, New Orleans, for appellee Allan McDonnel.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, John J. Weigel, Vivian L. Madison, Lawrence A. Mann, Leake & Anderson, New Orleans, for appellees.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Wayne J. Lee, Denise M. Pilie, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, James C. Murphy, Jr., Patricia A. McKay, Cornelius, Sarrin & Murphy, Peter A. Feringa, Jr., John F. Olinde, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, Wood Brown, III, Robert Durgin, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before BYRNES, CIACCIO and PLOTKIN, JJ.

BYRNES, Judge.

This is an appeal from district court judgments maintaining declinatory exceptions of lack of subject matter jurisdiction and peremptory exceptions of no cause and no right of action in a suit brought by Marvin Gorman and Marvin Gorman Ministries, Inc. to recover damages for defamation, libel, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress from Jimmy Swaggart and thirteen other defendants...

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