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GAUS v. COUNTY OF WELLS, IND.

Nos. F 84-218, S 83-443.

620 F.Supp. 1462 (1985)

Alexander GAUS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF WELLS, INDIANA; Board of Commissioners of Wells County; Tom Frantz, Commissioner; John Studebaker, Commissioner; William Thomas, Commissioner, Defendants. Alexander GAUS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. BLUFFTON BANNER NEWSPAPER; Jim Barberri, Editor; The Farmer (Magazine); the Webb Company: M.J. Nelson, Investigative Reporter, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

November 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Gaus, Jr., pro se.

David A. Arthur, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., Thomas C. Ewing, Fort Wayne, Ind., Jon M. Brown, Bluffton, Ind., John T. Mulvihill, South Bend, Ind., Scott Goldsmith, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, Chief Judge.

On September 27, 1983, the plaintiff filed his complaint in S 83-443. That complaint appeared to allege claims for libel, slander and defamation of character under Indiana law and were based on alleged false and misleading publications made by the defendants. The complaint also alleged that the defendants violated plaintiff's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United...

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