Legal Opinion
Luther Haynes and Dorothy Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, and Nicholas Lemann
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 17, 1993No. 18-2686PublishedCited by 228 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Luther Haynes and his wife, Dorothy Haynes née Johnson, appeal from the dismissal on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment of their suit against Nicholas Lemann, the author of a highly praised, bestselling book of social and political history called The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the book’s publisher. The plaintiffs claim that the book libels Luther Haynes and invades both plaintiffs’ right of privacy. Federal jurisdiction is based on diversity, and the common law of Illinois is agreed to…
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