Legal Opinion
Berry Gordy v. The Daily News, L.P. George Rush Tony Turner
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 28, 1996No. 95-55102PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
We are presented with the recurring question of where a newspaper and its writer can be sued for the alleged publication of a libel. Berry Gordy, a resident of California and the founder of Motown Records, brought a defamation action in California against The New York Daily News and columnist George Rush for a column published about Gordy in the Daily News. 1 The Daily News and Rush removed the action from Los Angeles Superior Court to federal district court, which dismissed the action for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants. We reverse.
I. Background
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