DiGiorgio Furit Corp. v. American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Oragnizations

Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation commenced an action against the AFL-CIO, an unincorporated association, Norman Smith, Louis ICrainoek, DeWitt Tannehill, Franz Daniel and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, an unincorporated association, alleging that the said defendants had published a libelous film entitled “Poverty in the Valley of Plenty” and praying for compensatory and punitive damages. Issue was joined and the case was tried by the court sitting without a jury. The court-found in favor of plaintiff and awarded plaintiff the sum of $100,000 as general damages and $50,000 as…