Legal Opinion
A. E. Hotchner v. Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, and Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 23, 1977No. 674, Docket 76-7479PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
Doubleday & Company, Inc. appeals from a judgment of $2 compensatory damages and $125,000 punitive damages for libel and invasion .of privacy entered by Judge Brieant on a jury verdict after a one-week trial in April 1976 in the Southern District. ' The plaintiff is A. E. Hotchner, a successful writer and lecturer who was a friend of Ernest Hemingway’s and published a memoir about him, Papa Hemingway, in 1965. The suit involves unfavorable remarks about. Hotchner made in Hemingway in Spain, an English translation of personal reminiscences by a Spanish writer Jose Luis…
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- Time, Inc. v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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