Legal Opinion
Dolly Kyle Browning and Direct Outstanding Creations Corporation v. William Jefferson Clinton
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 1, 2002No. 01-5050PublishedCited by 1,517 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we review the district court’s Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of eight common and federal law claims against former President Clinton, two of his lawyers, one of his aides, The New Yorker, and a journalist. Construing the complaint liberally and giving appellant the “benefit of all inferences that can be derived from the facts alleged,” Kowal v. MCI Communications Corp., 16 F.8d 1271, 1276 (D.C.Cir.1994), we affirm as to all appellees except Mr. Clinton; with respect to Mr. Clinton, we affirm the dismissal of six…
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