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GORDY v. DAILY NEWS, L.P.

No. 95-55102.

95 F.3d 829 (1996)

Berry GORDY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The DAILY NEWS, L.P.; George Rush; Tony Turner, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Resubmitted March 11, 1996.

Decided September 9, 1996.

As Amended October 28, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Drooz, Langberg, Cohn & Drooz, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

R. Bruce Rich, Lee Dranikoff, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City; Eve B. Burton, The Daily News, L.P., New York City; Amanda Johnston, Troop, Meisinger, Steuber & Pasich, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before CANBY, BOOCHEVER and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with the recurring question of where a newspaper and its writer can be sued for the alleged publication of a libel. Berry Gordy, a resident of California and the founder of Motown Records, brought a defamation action in California against The New York Daily News and columnist George Rush for a column published about Gordy in the Daily News.1 The Daily News...

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