Legal Opinion
Westmoreland v. CBS INC.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 13, 1984No. 82 Civ. 7913 (PNL)PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LEVAL, District Judge:
CBS objects on numerous grounds to the receipt in evidence of the Benjamin Report. The motion is granted for reasons explained below — in particular that the Report is largely irrelevant to the issues before the jury and consists in great part of opinion and hearsay of varying degrees of remoteness. Various facts asserted by the Report may nonetheless be received.
The history of the Report in brief is as follows: CBS broadcast its documentary— ■The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception —on January 23,1982. Three days later General Westmoreland held a news…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Litton Systems, Inc., Litton Business Telephone Systems, Inc., Litton Business Systems, Inc., and Litton Industries Credit Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees- Cross v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Western Electric Company, Inc., Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., New York Telephone Company, Inc., New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, Defendants-Appellants-Cross Litton Systems, Inc. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
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