Legal Opinion
Rod Geiger v. Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 18, 1983No. 83-1202PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Rod Geiger brings this appeal from an order of the district court, 560 F.Supp. 12, granting summary judgment for the defendant publishing companies in Geiger’s diversity defamation suit. In order to set the stage for this appeal we must return to Italy in 1945, to the dawn of the neo-realist film movement. Geiger, a private stationed with the United States Army in Rome, met the Italian film directors Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini as they collaborated on the film Open City. Geiger brought the film back in his barracks bag to the United States, where it…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by11 opinions
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