CRANE v. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

No. 90-55071.

972 F.2d 1511 (1992)

Richard P. CRANE, Jr.; James D. Henderson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC; Jack Anderson; Jerry Vann, aka Jerry Van Hoorelbeke; Jerry Seper; Darrow Tully; Alan Moyer; Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Deferred August 16, 1991.

Resubmitted August 13, 1992.

Decided August 21, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret M. Morrow, Quinn, Kully and Morrow, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul F. Eckstein, Brown & Bain, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants-appellees.

Before TANG, REINHARDT, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


TANG, Circuit Judge:

In August 1984, The Arizona Republic published an article describing an ongoing investigation by a congressional committee and the Department of Justice into alleged corruption by James Henderson and Richard Crane, Jr., the then current and former heads, respectively, of the Justice Department's Los Angeles Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force ("Strike Force"). Crane and Henderson subsequently filed a lawsuit in California state...

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