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DIBELLA v. HOPKINS

No. 01 CIV. 11779(DC).

285 F.Supp.2d 394 (2003)

Lou DIBELLA and Dibella Entertainment, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Bernard HOPKINS, Defendant.

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

September 30, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judd Burstein, P.C. by Judd Burstein, Esq. and Peter B. Schalk, Esq., New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Cozen O'Connor by Robert W. Hayes, Esq. and Marlo Pagano-Kelleher, Esq., New York City, for Defendant.

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

In this libel case, a jury rendered a verdict on November 19, 2002, in favor of plaintiff Lou DiBella requiring defendant Bernard Hopkins to pay DiBella $110,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages. The jury found that DiBella had been libeled by statements Hopkins made to a reporter, Steven Kim, that were published in an article on a boxing website on the Internet. The jury found that DiBella had...

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