HAYNES v. ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

No. 93-1775.

8 F.3d 1222 (1993)

Luther HAYNES and Dorothy Haynes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALFRED A. KNOPF, INCORPORATED, and Nicholas Lemann, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 4, 1993.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied December 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Goldfein, Daniel S. Hefter (argued), Arthur F. Radke, Caroline K. Vickrey, Maureen A. Gorman, Hefter & Radke, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James A. Klenk (argued), Samuel Fifer, Gregory R. Naron, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, MANION, Circuit Judge, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied December 17, 1993.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Luther Haynes and his wife, Dorothy Haynes née Johnson, appeal from the dismissal on the defendants' motion for summary judgment of their suit against Nicholas Lemann, the author of a highly praised, best-selling book of social and political history called The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), and Alfred A. Knopf...

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