A. E. Hotchner v. Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, and Doubleday & Company, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1977-03-23

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LUMBARD, Circuit Judge: Doubleday Company, Inc. appeals from a judgment of $2 compensatory damages and $125,000 punitive damages for libel and invasion .of privacy entered by Judge Brieant on a jury verdict after a one-week trial in April 1976 in the Southern District. ' The plaintiff is A. E. Hotchner, a successful writer and lecturer who was a friend of Ernest Hemingway’…

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