Legal Opinion
Dostert v. Washington Post Co.
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided February 5, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-0027-M(H)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HADEN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a public official, 1 brings this libel action 2 against the Washington Post Company to recover both compensatory and punitive damages for injury to his reputation allegedly resulting from an article published in the Defendant’s newspaper on August 20, 1981. Defendant moves this Court to dismiss this action for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. After both parties filed memoranda of law in support of their respective positions, this Court con ducted…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. CohnSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Johnson v. MuellerCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by8 opinions
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- Williams v. WCAU-TVDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1983
- Long v. EgnorWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1986
- Nanji v. National Geographic SocietyDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 2005
- Lane v. MPG NewspapersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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