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IN RE UNITED PRESS INTERN.

Civ. No. 89-0561 (CRR).

106 B.R. 323 (1989)

In re UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Debtor.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

As Amended September 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Merce, Schutter & Glickstein, Honolulu, Hawaii, Duane D. Morse, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Paul Alston, Robyn B. Chun, Mei Nakamoto, Paul, Johnson, Alston & Hunt, Honolulu, Hawaii, Bruce W. Sanford, Leonard H. Freiman, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

OPINION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

United Press International ("UPI"), the debtor in this action, has moved for summary judgment on Larry Mehau's claim for damages. The dispute arises out of allegedly defamatory statements that a UPI reporter sent over the UPI wire in 1977. Mehau, then a member of Hawaii's Board of Land and Natural Resources, claims that the statements soiled his name by linking him to underworld...

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