Vicki Monks, an Individual and Griffin Television, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation v. Clark Hetherington, an Individual

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

This is a Calendar C action.

The issue is a jurisdictional one. It is whether there is federal jurisdiction to entertain a declaratory judgment action which draws into question the immunity from suit of the agents of a broadcasting station who have been sued for defamation. It also challenges as unconstitutional an Oklahoma statute which requires the sta tion to broadcast an acknowledgment of the falsity of the subject matter of a previous broadcast.

The subject declaratory judgment was filed in federal court by plaintiffs-appellants, Vicki Monks, a reporter and…