FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC. v. U.S. SURGICAL CORP.

No. 810, Docket 97-6067.

131 F.3d 332 (1997)

FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INCORPORATED and Priscilla Feral, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION, Leon Hirsch, Mary Lou Sapone, Perceptions International, Inc. and Jan Reber, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Kaufman, Old Greenwich, CT (Peter Casey, Regnier, Taylor, Curran & Eddy, Hartford, CT, of counsel) for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Hugh F. Keefe, Lynch, Traub, Keefe & Errante, New Haven, CT (Eric P. Smith, of counsel) for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: ALTIMARI and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and PARKER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs-appellants Friends of Animals Incorporated ("FOA") and Priscilla Feral, the president of FOA, appeal from that portion of a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Warren W. Eginton, Judge) dismissing their complaint with prejudice.

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FOA and Feral brought this action in state court in Connecticut alleging, principally, defamation claims...

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