Legal Opinion
Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. New York Times Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 10, 1987No. 80 Civ. 6587 (VLB)PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
This defamation action arises from the publication in the November 1, 1980 edition of The New York Times of an article entitled “Westport Priests Beset by Church and U.S. on Status” (the “article”). The subjects of the article were the plaintiffs, Contemporary Mission, Inc. (“Contemporary Mission”), a not-for-profit organization of Catholic priests based in Westport, Connecticut, and four of its five member-priests.
In their original complaint, plaintiffs alleged diversity jurisdiction, challenged three statements in the Times article as…
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