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ALI v. DAILY NEWS PUB. CO., INC.

Civ. No. 79-355.

540 F.Supp. 142 (1982)

Ishmail M. ALI, Plaintiff, v. DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC., Ariel Melchoir, Jr. and Patricia Blake, Defendants.

District Court of Virgin Islands, Division of St. Thomas and St. John.

June 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ishmail M. Ali, pro se.

John G. Short, Dudley, Dudley & Topper, St. Thomas, V. I., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHRISTIAN, Chief Judge.

This pro se libel action arises out of a news article published by the defendant Daily News Publishing Co. on November 3, 1979. The case is now before the Court on the motion of defendants for summary judgment. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c).

I. The Facts

The news story which forms the basis of this action was published on the front page of the Virgin Islands Daily News under a five-column...

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