Legal Opinion
Machleder v. Diaz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 10, 1986No. Nos. 864, 1006, Dockets 85-7917, 85-7943PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs brought defamation and false light invasion of privacy actions against CBS and several of its employees. After plaintiffs were awarded jury verdicts totaling over a million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages, this appeal ensued. Arrayed on either side of the issues to be decided are the competing concerns of the privacy rights of individuals on the one hand, and the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press on the other. The private individual plaintiff claims that defendants made him the subject of a public news report that portrayed him…
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