Legal Opinion
Ratner v. Young
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided January 12, 1979No. Civ. 437/1973PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BREWSTER, District Judge, Sitting by Designation.
This action for damages for libel is an aftermath of the famous Fountain Valley murder trial in the United States District Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Croix. 1 Shortly after the return of the verdicts of guilty and the sentencing of all five defendants, THE ST. CROIX AVIS published an article containing a letter which had been received during the trial by the presiding judge, Warren H. Young, from a state court judge in Baltimore, Maryland, complimenting him on the manner in which he had conducted the proceedings in the…
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