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MASSON v. NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC.

No. 94-17147.

85 F.3d 1394 (1996)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Morgan, Jr., San Francisco, California, for plaintiff-appellant.

James M. Wagstaffe, Cooper, White, & Cooper, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee The New Yorker Magazine; Gary L. Bostwick, Santa Monica, California, and Lee Levine, Ross, Dixon & Masback, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee Janet Malcolm.

Before ALARCON, BEEZER and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

ALARCON, Circuit Judge:

In this libel action, Jeffrey M. Masson ("Masson") appeals from the judgment in favor of The New Yorker Magazine ("The New Yorker") and Janet Malcolm ("Malcolm") following two jury trials arising from the publication of a two-part article written by Malcolm in The New Yorker on December 5, and December 12, 1983, entitled "Annals of Scholarship: Trouble in the Archives" ("the Masson article"). Masson contends that he was defamed by five quotations...

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