PRICE v. VIKING PENGUIN, INC.

No. 88-5075.

881 F.2d 1426 (1989)

David PRICE, Appellant, v. VIKING PENGUIN, INC. and Peter Matthiessen, Appellees. William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Alfred Kazin and Susan Sontag, AMICUS CURIAE.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger J. Magnuson, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.

Martin Garbus, New York City, for appellees.

Before HEANEY and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

David Price, a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was assigned to the Pine Ridge Reservation (Reservation) in South Dakota during the early 1970s. While on assignment on the Reservation, he played a role in investigating the Wounded Knee occupation and a shootout on the Reservation during which two F.B.I. agents were killed. Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.), was convicted of their killings...

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