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KARL v. DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE SECURITIES

Civ. A. No. 99-3179.

78 F.Supp.2d 393 (1999)

Thomas J. KARL, Esq., v. DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE SECURITIES CORPORATION.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

December 23, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Willner, Kane, Willner & Holman, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff.

Eleanor Morris Illoway, John D. Harkins, Jr., Priscilla J. Mattison, Harkins Cunningham, Philadelphia, PA, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

DALZELL, District Judge.

In a lawsuit that could only have been filed in late twentieth-century America, a newly minted millionaire has filed this defamation action against the producer of a seven-and-a-half minute satirical videotape that in fifty-nine film clips spoofs the transaction in which the plaintiff acquired his riches. In order to test the legal viability of plaintiff's claim, as defendant invites us to do, we must view the video...

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