Legal Opinion
John C. Trotter v. Jack Anderson Enterprises, Inc. And Jack Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 5, 1987No. 86-2542PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
A Texas lawyer, who was president of a Guatemalan soft drink bottling company, sues a newspaper columnist for libel, contending that he was defamed by two of the columnist’s articles. The articles described anti-union violence at the bottling plant in Guatemala and identified the plant management, and the Texas lawyer in particular, as the orchestrators of the violence. The district court granted the columnist’s summary judgment motion on the grounds that the lawyer was a limited-purpose public figure and the lawyer had failed to show that the columnist harbored…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Rosenblatt v. BaerSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Hutchinson v. ProxmireSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by63 opinions
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