Legal Opinion
Adolph Saenz v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. And Roger Morris
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 26, 1988No. 87-1247PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from an extensive district court opinion dismissing the plaintiffs defamation action on a motion for summary judgment.
I. FACTS
A.The “OPS”
Appellant, Adolph Saenz, alleges that a March, 1981 article appearing in Playboy Magazine, entitled “Thirty-Six Hours at Santa Fe,” falsely accuses him of complicity in the torture of political dissidents while serving as an official of the United States Office of Public Safety (“OPS”) in Uruguay and Panama during the sixties and seventies. OPS was an adjunct of the State Department established after World War II for the…
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