Legal Opinion
DeRoburt v. Gannett Co., Inc.
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided March 10, 1983No. Civ. 78-0375PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
SAMUEL P. KING, Chief Judge.
This action involves an international libel suit filed in 1978 by Hammer DeRoburt, the President of Nauru, 1 against Gannett Co., Inc. (“Gannett”), one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States, and Guam Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Gannett. After nearly four years of pretrial litigation, defendants were successful in obtaining a dismissal of the suit. In its Order dated October 13, 1982, the Court ruled that the issues presented by the suit were nonjusticiable under the act of state doctrine. See DeRoburt v. Gannett Co., 548…
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