Factor v. Pennington Press, Inc.

DECKER, District Judge.

This is a lawsuit by John Factor (also called “Jake the Barber,” which I mention only because the defendants keep referring to Mr. Factor both in the documents in this lawsuit and in the book, which is the subject matter of this litigation, by that alias) against the publisher, Pennington Press, the printer, American Lithograph Co., four book stores and two authors, Roger Touhy and Ray Brennan.

The suit charges libel of Factor by publication of a book entitled, “The Stolen Years,” in which Roger Touhy through Ray Brennan related his version of how he came to be convicted…