JENOFF v. HEARST CORP.

No. 79-1566.

644 F.2d 1004 (1981)

Leonard JENOFF, Appellee, v. The HEARST CORPORATION, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Sherbow (William A. Agee, Sherbow, Shea & Tatelbaum, P.A., on brief), for appellant.

George F. Pappas, Ransom J. Davis (H. Russell Smouse, on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Judgment on a jury verdict for $50,000 in damages went for Leonard Jenoff in this libel action against the Hearst Corporation, publisher of The News American, a newspaper in general circulation in Baltimore.1 The defamation declared on appeared in a series of articles carried in the paper on and after December 22, 1974.

Before the case proceeded to jury trial the District Court ruled on summary...

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