Legal Opinion
Buckley v. Esquire, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 30, 1972No. 69 Civ. 3577PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
LEVET, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND OF THIS MOTION
This is a motion by defendant Esquire, Inc. (“Esquire”) for summary judgment dismissing a complaint of plaintiff William F. Buckley, Jr. for libel.
Plaintiff seeks $1,000,000 damages based on an allegedly libelous and defamatory article written by Gore Vidal which was published in the September 1969 issue of Esquire magazine and republished in December 1969 in an anthology of Esquire articles entitled “Smiling Through the Apocalypse.” The complaint in this action was filed on August 13, 1969 and was based solely on the…
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