Legal Opinion
Coughlin, James and Coughlin, Patricia, His Wife v. Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 14, 1986No. 85-1145PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Plaintiffs James and Patricia Coughlin filed suit against defendant Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc. (“Westinghouse”) alleging that Officer Coughlin, a Philadelphia police officer, was defamed by a series of television programs broadcast in February 1982 by KYW-TV, a Philadelphia television station owned and operated by *341Westinghouse.1 According to Coughlin, those broadcasts impliedly accused him of accepting a bribe when it broadcast a clandestine videotape of Coughlin exiting a so-called after hours club with what appeared to be an envelope while on patrol duty.…
3Cases cited2 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Coughlin v. Westinghouse Broadcasting & Cable, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1985
4Cited by42 opinions
- Mangual v. Rotger-SabatCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2003
- Smith v. DanielczykCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2007
- Smith v. BIC Corp.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1989
- State of Hawai'i Organization of Police Officers v. Society of Professional Journalists-University of Hawai'i ChapterHawaii Supreme Court · 1996
- Commonwealth v. BowdenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2003
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