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WESTMORELAND v. CBS INC.

No. 82 Civ. 7913 (PNL).

596 F.Supp. 1170 (1984)

General William C. WESTMORELAND, Plaintiff, v. CBS INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Supplemental Opinion October 9, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan M. Burt, David M. Dorsen, Sachs, Greenebaum & Tayler, Capital Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff; Patricia A. Embrey, Kathleen A. McGinn, James A. Moody, Anthony S. Murry, Richard R. Riese, Capital Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

David Boies, Stuart W. Gold, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for defendant CBS Inc.; Robert H. Baron, Randy M. Mastro, William F. Duker, Michael R. Doyen, George Vradenburg, III, Ronald E. Guttman, Douglas P. Jacobs, Victor A. Kovner, Harriette K. Dorsen, Lankenau, Kovner & Bickford, New York City, of counsel.

LEVAL, District Judge.

This is an action for libel. Plaintiff is General William Westmoreland, who served from 1964 to 1968 as Commander of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). Defendants are CBS Inc., and certain of its employees, officers and consultants, namely Mike Wallace, George Crile, Sam Adams and Van Gordon Sauter. The action concerns a television documentary report prepared by defendants and broadcast January 23, 1982, entitled...

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