Legal Opinion
Bruno & Stillman, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 17, 1980No. 80-1172, 80-1173PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
These are cross appeals arising out of the actions of the district court in dismissing a negligence count in plaintiff’s libel complaint against defendant newspaper and in granting plaintiff’s motion to compel the disclosure of three of defendant newspaper’s confidential sources and information conveyed by them to defendant. Each appeal presents an important question: first, whether plaintiff corporation, as described in the complaint, was correctly held by the district court to be a “public figure”, and must thus meet the standard of “actual malice”, i. e., proof that…
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