Legal Opinion
Lorentz v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 20, 1979No. Civ. A. C.A. 78-213PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SNYDER, Judge.
Pare Lorentz, a motion picture writer and director, seeks money damages from Radio Station KDKA, its talk show host John Cigna, KDKA’s owner, Westinghouse Broadcasting, Inc. (WBC), and its parent corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEC), for defamatory remarks made during a talk show broadcast on March 1,1977. Cross Motions for Summary Judgment will be denied.
I. Background
In February of 1977, after considerable radio discussion had been engendered by a television program depicting the life of the late Senator Joseph F. McCarthy called “Tailgunner Joe” and an…
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