Legal Opinion
Victoria Price Street v. National Broadcasting Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 13, 1981No. 77-1682PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
This is a Tennessee diversity case against the National Broadcasting Company for libel and invasion of privacy. The plaintiff-appellant, Victoria Price Street, was the prosecutrix and main witness in the famous rape trials of the Scottsboro boys, which occurred in Alabama more than forty years ago. NBC televised a play or historical drama entitled “Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys,” dramatizing the role of the local presiding judge in one of those trials.
The movie portrays Judge Horton as a courageous and tragic figure struggling to bring justice in a tense…
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