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WOLSTON v. READER'S DIGEST ASS'N, INC.

Civ. A. No. 75-459.

429 F.Supp. 167 (1977)

Ilya WOLSTON, Plaintiff, v. READER'S DIGEST ASSOCIATION, INC., doing business as Reader's Digest Press, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Dickstein, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Peter B. Hamilton, Williams, Connolly & Califano, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

BRYANT, District Judge.

In this diversity action the plaintiff, Ilya Wolston, seeks to recover compensatory and punitive damages for allegedly libelous statements about him that appear in the book KGB, The Secret Work of Soviet Agents ("KGB"), authored by defendant John Barron, published by defendant Reader's Digest, offered as a selection by defendants Book-of-the-Month Club and Macmillan Book Clubs, and reprinted in paperback...

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