Legal Opinion
Melvin M. Belli v. Orlando Daily Newspapers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1968No. 23623PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
This action for damages for libel and slander is based on a false statement relating to Mr. Melvin Belli. Belli, an attorney of national prominence, is well known in the legal profession for his pioneering in the development of demonstrative evidence as a trial tactic and his success in obtaining large judgments for plaintiffs in personal injury suits. He is well known to the general public because of his representation of Jack Ruby and others in the public eye.
In March 1964 Mr. Leon Handley, an attorney in Orlando, Florida, in a conversation with Miss Jean Yothers, a…
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