Legal Opinion
John Birch Society v. National Broadcasting Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 2, 1967No. Nos. 342, 343, Docket 30977, 30978PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
These are appeals from judgments in two separate cases. The appellant, John Birch Society, a corporation, brought one action, and the individual appellants, Robert Welch, Laurence E. Bunker and MacDonald Hays, who were officers of the Society, brought the other, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the National Broadcasting Company and National Broadcasting Company News (as National Broadcasting Company News is non-existent, reference is to one defendant hereinafter called NBC) alleging that they had been libelled during a…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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