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Oscar Wyatt, Jr. v. Jerome Kaplan

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 20, 1982No. 81-2246PublishedCited by 322 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This action is one for conspiracy to commit libel and slander. 1 It concerns statements that one of the defendants, Jerome Kaplan, allegedly made to a reporter for The Wall Street Journal regarding a stockholder derivative suit he had filed against the plaintiff, Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. The district court denied the plaintiff discovery and, in an unpublished memorandum and order, dismissed the action for lack of personal jurisdiction. We affirm.

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Oscar Wyatt, a Texas resident, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Coastal Corporation (Coastal), which has its headquar ters in…

2Cases cited42 opinions

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  3. Milliken v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
  5. Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. BreslerSupreme Court of the United States · 1970

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