Legal Opinion
John T. O'reilly, and Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. The New York Times Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 2, 1982No. 439, Docket 82-7530PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
In this action in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which federal jurisdiction is predicated on diverse citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332, Contemporary Mission, Inc., a not-for-profit organization of Catholic priests based in Westport, Connecticut, and four of its five member-priests, including appellant Rev. John T. O’Reilly, have sued The New York Times Company for libel. The alleged libel, printed in the Times for November 1, 1980, was an article about the Mission and its priests by Diane Henry. The article said, inter alia, that church…
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3Cited by75 opinions
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