Legal Opinion
Peisner v. Detroit Free Press, Inc.
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided March 21, 1978No. Docket 77-2779PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff Balfour Peisner, a Detroit attorney, and his wife, Nora S. Peisner, filed suit against defendants Detroit Free Press and Louis Heldman, its reporter, on December 10, 1973, in connection with the newspaper’s publication of an article and an editorial concerning plaintiff Balfour Peisner’s representation of an indigent criminal defendant.
The article, which appeared in the November 20, 1973, edition of the Free Press, stated that Detroit Recorder’s Court Judge Patrick O’Brien had appointed Peisner, his longtime friend and former campaign manager, to handle the appeal of an indigent…
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