CACI PREMIER TECHNOLOGY, INCORPORATED; CACI International, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Randi RHODES; Piquant, LLC, d/b/a Air America Radio, Defendants-Appellees.
Alm Media, Incorporated; The Associated Press; Cox Communications, Incorporated; Dow Jones and Company, Incorporated; Gannett, Incorporated; The Hearst Corporation; Landmark Communications, Incorporated; Magazine Publishers of America; NBC Universal, Incorporated; The New York Times Company; The Newspaper Association of America; Newsweek, Incorporated; The Radio-Television News Directors Association; The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Time, Incorporated; The Washington Post, Amici Supporting Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: January 31, 2008.
Decided: August 5, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Joseph William Koegel, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Laura Rose Handman, Davis, Wright & Tremaine, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: John F. O'Connor, Frank H. Griffin, IV, Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellants. David M. Shapiro, Davis, Wright & Tremaine, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees. Jack M. Weiss, Joshua Wilkenfeld, Laura M. Leitner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., New York, New York; Theodore B. Olson, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Amici Supporting Appellees.
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY joined. Judge DUNCAN wrote a separate opinion concurring in the judgment.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
OPINION
MICHAEL, Circuit Judge:
This defamation case centers on the notorious U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Abu Ghraib prison is the place where Iraqi detainees were subjected to horrific abuse. It is also the place where plaintiffs, CACI Premier Technology, Inc. and CACI International Inc. (together, CACI), interrogated Iraqi detainees for the U.S. military. Defendant Randi Rhodes, a talk-radio host, blamed...
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