Legal Opinion
Dowd v. Calabrese
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 30, 1984No. Civ. A. 80-0911, 80-0912, 80-3324, 80-3325 and 81-1266PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.
These are consolidated actions revolving around several articles published in 1979 by the Wall Street Journal. The principal lawsuits 1 charge that the Dow Jones Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal; Lawrence O’Donnell, managing editor of that newspaper; and Jim Drinkhall, one of its reporters, libelled William M. Kramer and John M. Dowd, who at the time the articles were published were members of the Justice Department’s San Francisco Strike Force. In a second lawsuit, 2 Drink-hall charges Kramer with invasion of privacy and deprivation of…
2Cases cited64 opinions
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Mastro, Brian A. v. Potomac Elec PowerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2006
- Ramunno v. CawleySupreme Court of Delaware · 1998
- Liberty Lobby, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1988
- Boisjoly v. Morton Thiokol, Inc.District Court, D. Utah · 1988
- Pearce v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc.District Court, District of Columbia · 1987
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