Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.

Based on libels published in issues of Hustler magazine and circulated throughout the United States, a New York plaintiff has obtained an award of damages in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire against both a publishing corporation, whose principal place of business was Ohio at the time of the publication and is now California, and the magazine’s publisher, whose residence has followed the corporation. The defendants have appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has sought our opinions on whether the trial court properly understood New…