Legal Opinion
Holt v. Cox Enterprises
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided March 28, 1984No. C82-2847APublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
RICHARD C. FREEMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Darwin Holt seeks damages for libel and invasion of privacy. The action is before the court on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, Rule 56, Fed.R. Civ.P., and the plaintiff’s opposition thereto. For the reasons that follow, the court will grant the defendants’ motion.
Holt’s claims are based on five newspaper articles published in September 1979 by defendant Cox Enterprises, Inc. Each of these articles contains reference to Holt’s role in a controversy surrounding a sporting event that occurred eighteen years earlier.
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Garrison v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Time, Inc. v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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- Gill v. Delaware Park, LLCDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 2003
- Wilson v. Daily Gazette Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 2003
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