Legal Opinion
Trump v. Chicago Tribune Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 3, 1985No. 84 Civ. 6873 (EW)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Plaintiff Donald Trump, a New York real estate developer, brings this libel action against the Chicago Tribune Company (“Tribune”) and Paul Gapp, an employee of the Tribune whose byline describes him as the Tribune’s “architecture critic.” Plaintiff’s complaint seeks damages based upon statements contained in an article appearing under the heading of “Design” in the Sunday Tribune Magazine of August 12, 1984, in which Gapp discussed Trump’s plan to construct the tallest building in the world, a 150-story tower, on a landfill site at the southeast end of…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- William F. Buckley, Jr. v. Franklin H. LittellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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