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MASSON v. NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC.

Nos. 87-2665, 87-2700.

960 F.2d 896 (1992)

Jeffrey M. MASSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC., Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Janet Malcolm, Defendants-Appellees. Jeffrey M. MASSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC., Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Janet Malcolm, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Morgan, Jr., Paul Kleven, Law Offices of Charles O. Morgan, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant Jeffrey M. Masson.

Charles W. Kenady, Karl Olson, Cooper, White & Cooper, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.

Neil L. Shapiro, Michelle D. Kahn, Stephen M. Knaster, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Gary L. Bostwick, Lee B. Ackerman, Bostwick & Ackerman, Santa Monica, Cal., for defendant-appellee Janet Malcolm.

Robert G. Sugarman, R. Bruce Rich, Linda Steinman, Ronald Klempner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for amici curiae Ass'n of American Publishers, Inc. and Magazine Publishers of America, Inc.

Before: ALARCON, HALL and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

Jeffrey Masson's odyssey through the federal courts continues. On remand from the Supreme Court, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 2419, 2437, 115 L.Ed.2d 447 (1991), we consider what responsibility, if any, publishers have to purge defamatory material from stories submitted to them by free-lance writers.

Background

Masson was the subject of a not altogether flattering article written by Janet Malcolm, published by The New Yorker Magazine...

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