Legal Opinion

Richard M. Patch v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. And Frank Browning

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 7, 1981No. 80-1241Published

1Opinion of the Court

652 F.2d 754

7 Media L. Rep. 1717

Richard M. PATCH, Appellant,

v.

PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES, INC. and Frank Browning, Appellees.

No. 80-1241.

United States Court of Appeals,

Eighth Circuit.

Submitted Dec. 10, 1980.

Decided July 7, 1981.

R. Dickey Hamilton (argued), Sharon Baldwin, Shadur, Krupp & Miller, Chicago, Ill., John T. Martin, Sam L. Colville, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., for appellees.

Edward P. McSweeney (argued), John D. Anderson, for appellant.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, ROSS and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.

2Per curiam

1

Richard Patch allegedly was libeled by an article in the February 1976 issue of…

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3Cases cited49 opinions

  1. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Guaranty Trust Co. v. YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. Leroy v. Great Western United Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Meredith v. Winter HavenSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  5. Hartmann v. Time, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1948

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