Legal Opinion
Wsb-Tv, Mark C. Winne and Richard Nelson v. Earl Lee
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 22, 1988No. 87-8455PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNNE, Senior District Judge:
This appeal is taken from the summary judgment entered by the Court below dismissing the claim of plaintiffs, posited upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that defendant, acting under color of law, deprived them of the right to freedom of the press secured by the Constitution. We reverse.
We step briskly across the procedural morass revealed by the record, pausing briefly at tufts of more than passing significance. On November 10, 1986, plaintiffs, WSB-TV, a Georgia television station that broadcasts from Atlanta, Georgia, Mark C. Winne, a WSB-TV reporter, and Richard Nelson, a…
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