SEMIDA v. RICE

No. 88-3026.

863 F.2d 1156 (1988)

John D. SEMIDA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas R. RICE, Arab Essa Haid, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Huntington Williams (Carol Lynne Eoannou, Williams & Eoannou, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Ralph Nicholas Boccarosse, Jr. (Siciliano, Ellis, Dyer & Boccarosse, Fairfax, Va., on brief), Michael McGettigan (David C. Schroeder, Murphy, McGettigan & West, P.C., Alexandria, Va., James G. McCarney, Engel & Mulholland, New York City, on brief) for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and SPROUSE and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

John D. Semida sued his former business associate Arab Essa Haid and an accountant employed by Haid, Thomas R. Rice, for defamation, for professional negligence on the part of Rice, for tortious interference with his business, and for conspiracy under Virginia Code § 18.2-499. Trial began before a jury, but the district court directed a verdict for both defendants on all alleged causes of action at the close of Semida's case....

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