WSB-TV v. LEE

No. 87-8455.

842 F.2d 1266 (1988)

WSB-TV, Mark C. Winne and Richard Nelson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Earl LEE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrence B. Adamson, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Peter C. Canfield, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Donald B. Howe, Jr., Howe, Sutton, McCreary & Dettmering, Douglasville, Ga., Harvey S. Gray, Fortson & White, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, Senior District Judge.


LYNNE, Senior District Judge:

This appeal is taken from the summary judgment entered by the Court below dismissing the claim of plaintiffs, posited upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that defendant, acting under color of law, deprived them of the right to freedom of the press secured by the Constitution. We reverse.

We step briskly across the procedural morass revealed by the record, pausing briefly at tufts of more than passing significance. On November 10, 1986...

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