Legal Opinion
Alfonso J. Cervantes v. Time, Inc., and Denny Walsh
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 17, 1972No. 71-1555PublishedCited by 195 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.
Alfonso J. Cervantes is the mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri. In May 1970 there appeared in appellee’s Life magazine an article of 87 paragraphs accusing the mayor of maintaining “business and personal ties with the gangsters that operate in his city.” The article was entitled “The Mayor, The Mob and The Lawyer,” and captioned with a comment explaining: “Both the mayor and his new crime commissioner have personal ties to the underworld.” The substance of the article describes in some detail the relationship said to exist between Mayor Cervantes, Morris Shenker, 1 a…
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