Legal Opinion
Jeffrey M. Masson v. The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Janet Malcolm Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 5, 1996No. 94-17147PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALARCON, Circuit Judge:
In this libel action, Jeffrey M. Masson (“Masson”) appeals from the judgment in favor of The New Yorker Magazine (“The New Yorker”) and Janet Malcolm (“Malcolm”) following two jury trials arising from the publication of a two-part article written by Malcolm in The New Yorker on December 5, and December 12, 1983, entitled “Annals of Scholarship: Trouble in the Archives” (“the Masson article”). Masson contends that he was defamed by five quotations which were allegedly falsely attributed to him in the article. 1 Masson has conceded for the purposes of this litigation that…
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