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BARGER v. PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES, INC.

No. C-82-2198-MHP.

564 F.Supp. 1151 (1983)

Sharon M. BARGER, Margaret Diane Brandes, and Valerie Maria Gilbert, Plaintiffs, v. PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

May 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent A. Russell, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Stanley J. Friedman, Lawrence A. Gibbs, Friedman, Sloan & Ross, P.C., San Francisco, Cal., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM ORDER AND OPINION

PATEL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs filed this libel suit against Playboy Magazine1 on May 12, 1982 based on its publication of an article (attached as Exhibit A to the complaint) entitled "Undercover Angel" and written by Lawrence Linderman. The article purported to describe the experiences of an undercover narcotics agent, Dan Black, who infiltrated the Hell's Angels. Plaintiffs charged in their original...

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