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NELSON v. ASSOCIATED PRESS, INC.

No. 83-8219-CIV.

667 F.Supp. 1468 (1987)

Janis NELSON, Plaintiff, v. ASSOCIATED PRESS, INC.; Newsweek, Inc.; Pete Axthelm; News America, Inc.; Knight-Ridder, Inc.; and Tim Pallesen, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida, Miami Division.

August 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis D. Bruno, Bruno & Sommers, Albany, N.Y. and Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, Fla., for plaintiff.

Margaret Blair Soyster, Diane Boenig Cavanaugh, Rogers & Wells, New York City and Joseph P. Averill, Miami, Fla., for The Associated Press.

F. Kendall Slinkman, West Palm Beach, Fla., for plaintiff Janis Nelson.

Sanford L. Bohrer, Laura G. Pula, R. Marcus Cobourn, Thomson Zeder Bohrer Werth & Razook, Miami, Fla., for Knight-Ridder, Inc., Tim Pallesen, and News America Publishing, Inc.

Slade R. Metcalf, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer, New York City, for News America Publishing, Inc.

Donald M. Middlebrooks, Thomas R. Julin, Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, Fla., Stephen Froling, The Old Vicarage Helpston, Cambs. England, PE6 7ED, for defendants Newsweek, Inc. and Pete Axthelm.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

SPELLMAN, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE comes before the Court after a pre-trial conference in the above-named case. The case was transferred to this division after a pre-trial conference was held before Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp. At that pre-trial conference, Judge Ryskamp announced limited rulings and entered the same without prejudice to this Court's reconsideration of them during...

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