Legal Opinion
A.J. Faigin v. Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 4, 1996No. 95-2702PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Sports agent A.J. Faigin represented James E. Kelly, a quarterback for the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, from 1983 to 1987. Kelly spoke unfavorably of Faigin in an autobiography (ARMED And Dangerous) that he co-wrote with sports writer Vie Carucci. Faigin filed a diversity suit against Kelly, Carucci, and the book’s publisher, Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., claiming defamation and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. Faigin filed the suit first in the Northern District of Illinois, voluntarily dismissed it, and then refiled…
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