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BURGESS v. CHASE-RIBOUD

Civ. A. No. 89-8531.

765 F.Supp. 233 (1991)

Granville BURGESS, Plaintiff, v. Barbara CHASE-RIBOUD, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

May 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl T. Bogus, Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe, Cramer & Jamieson, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Alison Douglas Knox, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

Barbara Chase-Riboud, pro se.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT F. KELLY, District Judge.

Speculation about the private lives of public figures has been a popular pastime in this country for as long as there have been newspapers, but it is a rare occurrence when a story which originated as an item of malicious gossip in the early 1800's becomes the basis of a lawsuit nearly 200 years later.

The public figure in this story is Thomas Jefferson, and the starting point in this copyright infringement...

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