Sullivan v. Day Publishing Co.

ZAMPANO, District Judge.

In this diversity action plaintiff seeks recovery of the defendants for an alleged libel committed during the course of a labor dispute between the Robertson Paper Box Company and the defendant union.

The plaintiff was a labor relations consultant hired by the Robertson Paper Box Company to participate in negotiations with the union on October 5, 1964. A strike occurred on October 14, 1964. Plaintiff alleges in his complaint that he was slandered and libelled by certain statements made on October 31, 1964, by defendants McDermott and Dolzenchuk, as representatives of…