Legal Opinion
Prager v. American Broadcasting Cos., Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided July 25, 1983No. Civ. A. 82-4270PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BIUNNO, Senior District Judge:
This suit is grounded on two TV news broadcasts, one on Friday, March 26, 1982, and the other on Monday, March 29, 1982.
The major subject dealt with was a marketing program of International Diamond Corporation to sell diamonds for investment as an inflation hedge.
The discovery indicates that the marketing was done through independent contractor brokers making sales on a commission basis with the payments being sent by the brokers to the company which sent the diamonds by mail directly to the buyers.
From a structural standpoint there seem to have been some…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Hanna v. PlumerSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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