Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Hearst Pub. Co.
District Court, S.D. California
Decided April 20, 1954No. 16075-CPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.
The plaintiff brought this action for libel against the Hearst Publishing Company Inc., and Westbrook Pegler. No service has been made on Pegler, but the Hearst Publishing Company Inc., hereafter called the defendant, moved to dismiss for failure to state a claim. The case is here on the basis of diversity of citizenship.
I
The Demand for Retraction.
The alleged libel was a lengthy article, three columns by ten inches. Contained therein were eight references to the plaintiff. The plaintiff demanded a retraction of “certain statements regarding me which are untrue,…
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