Legal Opinion
Leonard Jenoff v. The Hearst Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1981No. 79-1566PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALBERT Y. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
Judgment on a jury verdict for $50,000 in damages went for Leonard Jenoff in this libel action against the Hearst Corporation, publisher of The News American, a newspaper in general circulation in Baltimore. 1 The defamation declared on appeared in a series of articles carried in the paper on and after December 22, 1974.
Before the case proceeded to jury trial the District Court ruled on summary judgment that Jenoff is neither a “public official” nor a “public figure.” 2 Jenoff v. Hearst Corp., 453 F.Supp. 541 (D.Md.1978). Jenoff thus was spared the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Rosenblatt v. BaerSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Hutchinson v. ProxmireSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Time, Inc. v. FirestoneSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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