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PESTA v. CBS, INC.

No. 84-5124.

686 F.Supp. 166 (1988)

Carl M. PESTA & Penny M. Pesta, his wife, Plaintiffs, v. CBS, INC., a corporation, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner, Monika Jensen, John Doe, Mary Roe, and Storer Communications, Inc., a corporation, jointly & severally, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

June 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Balfour Peisner, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Richard E. Rassel, Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile, Detroit, Mich., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RALPH M. FREEMAN, District Judge.

This litigation arises out of an allegedly defamatory broadcast of a segment of the CBS program, "60 Minutes," entitled "Tragic Assumptions." The background facts are largely undisputed and were summarized in a prior opinion of this court as follows:

Background Facts

In late December, 1972, sixteen-year-old John Haisenleder became ill with the flu. Because of the severity of his...

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