Legal Opinion
Wiegand v. Motiva Enterprises, LLC
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided December 16, 2003No. CIV. 02-3979(JBS)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SIMANDLE, District Judge.
On November 20, 2001, two newspapers ran articles which stated that plaintiff Steven Wiegand was operating a “mail order neo-Nazi skinhead music company” and that he was a “personal friend and supporter” of Katja Lane, the purported wife of Aryan Nation leader David Lane. Plaintiff immediately brought the articles to the attention of his supervisor at the Texaco gas station where he had worked without incident since 1994, which was operated by defendants Motiva Enterprises and Star-staff, Inc. The defendants’ resulting investigation uncovered that plaintiff was…
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