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AEQUITRON MEDICAL, INC. v. CBS, INC.

No. 93 Civ. 950 (DC).

964 F.Supp. 704 (1997)

AEQUITRON MEDICAL, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, Plaintiff, v. CBS, INC., a New York Corporation, and CBS News, a Division of CBS, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Best & Flanagan by David B. Morse, Minneapolis, MN, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., New York City, for Plaintiff.

Susanna M. Lowy, Cameron A. Stracher, New York City, Faegre & Benson by John P. Borger, Eric E. Jorstad, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendants.

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

On November 2, 1989, defendants CBS, Inc. and CBS News (together, "CBS") broadcast a national news segment on infant heart rate and respiration monitors. The news segment reported that the monitors, which are used to protect infants against sudden infant death syndrome ("SIDS"), were defective and suggested that the flaws were potentially life-threatening. The broadcast...

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