Legal Opinion
Hepps v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 14, 1984No. 18 E.D. Appeal Dkt. 1983PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
The instant civil libel action resulted from a series of five “investigative” articles appearing in The Philadelphia Inquirer which purported to link Maurice S. Hepps, General Programming, Inc. and a number of independent corporate entities who operated beer and beverage distributorships as franchises of General Programming, Inc. to certain named “underworld” figures and to organized crime generally. Maurice Hepps, the individual plaintiff-appellant was the principle stockholder of the corporate plaintiff-appellant, General Programming, Inc. (“General”). General owns…
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3Cited by70 opinions
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