Legal Opinion
Dowd v. Calabrese
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 26, 1984No. Civ. A. Nos. 80-0911, 80-0912, 80-3324, 80-3325 and 81-1266PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.
This is a libel action revolving around charges printed in the Wall Street Journal that the plaintiffs Kramer and Dowd Department of Justice strike force attorneys, engaged in improper conduct in pressuring one Samuel Calabrese, an organized crime figure, into becoming a government witness. The Court previously disposed of disputes centering on the efforts of the plaintiffs to discover the identity of the sources of Jim Drinkhall, author of the Wall Street Journal articles. Dowd v. Ca-labrese, 577 F.Supp. 238 (D.D.C.1983). The current set of motions…
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