Legal Opinion
Apostle v. Booth Newspapers, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided January 31, 1983No. G82-721PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ENSLEN, District Judge.
On September 17, 1982, Plaintiffs filed this diversity action against Defendant Booth Newspapers, Inc., alleging that two newspaper articles had falsely implied that Plaintiffs and their businesses were connected with prostitution in the Muskegon Heights business district. The articles in question appeared on page IB of the September 20, 1981 edition of the Muskegon Chronicle, a newspaper owned and published by Defendant.
The two articles appeared with accompanying headlines, photographs and captions; all address a purported problem of prostitution in Muskegon…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Daley v. LaCroixMichigan Supreme Court · 1970
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- Duran v. Detroit News, Inc.Michigan Court of Appeals · 1993
- Vogelaar v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1987
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