Legal Opinion
Foodscience Corp. v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided July 10, 1984No. Civ. A. 80-186PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
HOLDEN, Senior District Judge.
The plaintiff FoodScience Corporation (FoodScience) has invoked the court’s diversity jurisdiction to recover for commercial defamation, alleging wrongdoing by the defendant McGraw-Hill, Inc., in its publication of two related writings in Medical World News of January 21, 1980. The defendant has responded by way of a motion for summary judgment. The defendant has advanced numerous reasons in support of its contention that the plaintiff’s recovery for defamation is precluded as a matter of law. The most salient and persuasive of the points…
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