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FORETICH v. CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC.

No. 94-1050.

37 F.3d 1541 (1994)

Vincent P. FORETICH; Doris Foretich, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC.; American Broadcasting Companies, Incorporated; ABC Holding Company, Incorporated; The Landsburg Company; Alan Landsburg; Linda Otto, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: William Bradford Reynolds, Sr., Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, DC, for appellants. MacKenzie Canter, III, Copilevitz & Canter, Washington, DC, for appellees. ON BRIEF: Paul R. Taskier, Adam Proujansky, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, DC, for appellants. Mark J. Diskin, Copilevitz & Canter, Washington, DC, for appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, and BUTZNER and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judges.

Affirmed and remanded by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Senior Judge BUTZNER and Senior Judge PHILLIPS joined.

OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Vincent and Doris Foretich filed a defamation action against the producers and broadcasters of an ABC docudrama in which a character apparently referred to one or both of them as "abusers" of their granddaughter, Hilary A. Foretich, who had been the subject of a prolonged...

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