Legal Opinion
Keen v. Philadelphia Daily News
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 21, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 70-3515PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN W. LORD, Jr., Chief Judge.
Petitioner, a state prisoner presently incarcerated in the Western State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, filed the instant suit in which he seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis. In this suit the petitioner seeks to recover over $300,000 in damages from the defendants under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 et seq. The substance of petitioner’s complaint is that an unnamed reporter wrote an article which appeared in the defendant newspaper which was “a libelous and slanderous report stating that the plaintiff…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Basista v. WeirCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
- James Hoey Fear v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and R. K. Johnson, Warden, York County Prison, York, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ex Rel. Robert Gatewood v. Edward J. Hendrick, Superintendent of County PrisonsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967
- Hopkins v. WassonDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1962
- Myrtie Hopkins v. Condon Wasson, Robert Hamilton, Joe Ledford, J. A. Ware, Joe Harris and LesterhaneyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Everett v. City of ChesterDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1975
- America's Best Cinema Corp. v. Fort Wayne Newspapers, Inc.District Court, N.D. Indiana · 1972
- Jones v. TaibbiDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1981
- Brooks v. DunnDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1974
- Fynes v. WeinbergerDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1985
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