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DOWD v. CALABRESE

Civ. A. Nos. 80-0911, 80-0912, 80-3324, 80-3325 and 81-1266.

577 F.Supp. 238 (1983)

John M. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. Samuel Ray CALABRESE, Defendant. William M. KRAMER, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendants. John D. DOWD, Plaintiff, v. James A. DRINKHALL, et al., Defendant. James A. DRINKHALL, Plaintiff, v. William M. KRAMER, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

October 26, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Green, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Michael T. Kenney, Santa Anna, Cal., Michael N. McCarty, Sara E. Lister, Togo D. West, Jr., Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Washington, D.C., Gregory L. Diskant, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, Richard A. Levie, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., John C. Martin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

These consolidated defamation actions arise out of two articles written by one Jim Drinkhall and published in the Wall Street Journal in April and December 1979. The first, "Ordeal at McNeil: Federal Lawmen Plan an Unpleasant Future for Sam Ray Calabrese," described the alleged plans of plaintiff William Kramer, a San Francisco-based member of the Department of Justice's Organized Crime Strike Force, to pressure...

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