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BATES v. TIMES-PICAYUNE PUBLISHING CORP.

No. CA-9217.

527 So.2d 407 (1988)

Roy Clensy BATES, Sr. v. The TIMES-PICAYUNE PUBLISHING CORP., Ashton Phelps, Jr., Charles A. Ferguson, Fritz Harsdorff, and Ellis Lucia.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

June 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rutledge C. Clement, Jr., Amelia J. Williams, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for defendants/appellees.

Wanda Jane Warmack, Law Offices of Ferdinand J. Kleppner, Metairie, and Romualdo Gonzalez, Murray, Braden, Gonzalez and Richardson, New Orleans, for plaintiff/appellant.

Before BYRNES, CIACCIO and LOBRANO, JJ.

LOBRANO, Judge.

Plaintiff, Roy Bates, Jr., appeals the dismissal of his defamation suit against the Times-Picayune Publishing Corp.,1 on a motion for summary judgment.

The evidence submitted with respect to the motion for summary judgment shows the following facts. On September 2, 1980 the New Orleans Police Department, in an attempt to arrest one Gregory Nunnery, was met with an angry crowd at the Desire Housing Project. During...

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