AIDS COUNSELING & TESTING CENTERS v. GROUP W TV

No. 89-1492.

903 F.2d 1000 (1990)

AIDS COUNSELING AND TESTING CENTERS; John B. Kotmair, Jr.; Andrea Boucher Stringer; David B. Baker; Alva Sayrs Baker, III; Edward L. Kotmair; John B. Kotmair, III; Dorothy M. Dunty; Nathan Fenby; Carol R. Baker; Barbara A. Fillmann; Ronald Stringer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Shirley Ann Purkey, Plaintiff, v. GROUP W TELEVISION, INCORPORATED; Stuart Caplan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1990.

As Amended June 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Lane, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward Leon Wolf, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., Douglas D. Connah, Jr., Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Andrew J. Groszer, Jr., Cockeysville, Md., on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Hadrian R. Katz, M. Isabel Medina, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., Kathleen O. Gavin, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, on brief, Baltimore, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Before SPROUSE and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises out of a suit for defamation and false-light invasion of privacy. In this court, the appellants-plaintiffs contest a number of the district court's rulings that led the court to hold that it had jurisdiction over the matter and to dismiss most of the claims in the complaint. We hold that the appellants have failed to demonstrate that the district court erred in any respect and we therefore affirm the judgment.

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