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DEMPSEY v. NATIONAL ENQUIRER, INC.

Civ. No. 88-0106-P.

687 F.Supp. 692 (1988)

Henry DEMPSEY, Plaintiff v. The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

June 28, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Robitzek, Berman, Simmons & Goldberg, Lewiston, Me., for Henry Dempsey.

Ralph I. Lancaster, Pierce, Atwood, Portland, Me., and Gerson A. Zweifach, Laura P. Masurovsky, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., for Nat. Enquirer.

John W. Bernotavicz, Curtis Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau, Portland, Me., and Neal M. Goldman, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Lehrer, New York City, for News America.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING THE DEFENDANT NATIONAL ENQUIRER'S MOTION TO DISMISS

GENE CARTER, District Judge.

In September, 1987, the plaintiff fell out of the door hatch of a small commercial airplane as it was in flight over Casco Bay, Maine, managed to grasp and cling to the door rails on the underbody of the plane for 10 minutes, and survived his co-pilot's emergency landing with only a minor injury. Many newspapers and news services reported...

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