Legal Opinion
Murray W. Miller, Cross-Appellee v. Transamerican Press, Inc., Cross-Appellants, and Sam Steiger, Deponent, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1983No. 82-5539, 82-5585PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to compel a deponent’s testimony. The major issue is whether a nonparty former Congressman may invoke the speech or debate privilege as to questions about material he inserted into the Congressional Record.
FACTS
An article appeared in the June 1972 issue of Overdrive Magazine implying that Miller, a union pension fund trustee, had misappropriated funds. In 1973, he filed a libel suit against Transamerican Press and others, the publishers of Overdrive (“Trans-american”), in Texas federal court.
Shortly after the…
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