Legal Opinion
Buckley v. New York Times Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1964No. Nos. 20452, 20717, 20851-20853, 20514, 20716PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, District Judge.
These consolidated libel actions for damages are all based on an Associated Press story which stated that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans had threatened excommunication by personal letters to Catholics seated on the platform of a militantly segregationist White Citizens Council meeting in New Orleans; that Buckley, then the Republican candidate for Mayor of New Orleans, was on the platform, but denied receiving such a letter.1
*472Federal jurisdiction in each case was based on diversity of citizenship, and since none of the defendants had qualified to do…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- International Shoe Co. v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- McGee v. International Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Time, Inc. v. Frank ManningCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- William F. Buckley, Jr. v. New York Post CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- The New York Times Company v. Eugene ConnorCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Edward B. Benjamin v. Western Boat Building Corporation, Defendant-Third-Party v. Roger McAleer Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1973
- E. Howard Hunt, Jr. v. Liberty Lobby, IncCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
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