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HOWARD v. ANTILLA

No. 01-1643.

294 F.3d 244 (2002)

Robert HOWARD, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Susan ANTILLA, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 28, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan M. Albano, with whom Bingham Dana LLP, William L. Chapman and Orr & Reno were on brief, for appellant.

Robert A. Bertsche, Zick Rubin, Stuart Svonkin and Hill & Barlow were on brief, for ABC, Inc., Bloomberg L.P., CBS Broadcasting, Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., The National Broadcasting Co., Inc., NYP Holdings, Inc., Time Inc., Ziff Davis Media, Inc., The Association of American Publishers, Inc., and The Newspaper Association of America, Inc., amici curiae.

Charles G. Douglas, III, with whom C. Kevin Leonard, V. Richards Ward, Jr. and Douglas, Leonard & Garvey, P.C. were on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SARIS, District Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, chairman of a publicly-traded company, brought suit against the defendant, a newspaper reporter, for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. At the end of the trial, the jury returned a sizeable verdict in favor of the plaintiff on his claim for false light invasion of privacy, but a take-nothing verdict on the defamation claim. For the reasons stated below, we vacate the jury's verdict on the false light claim and...

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