Alfonso J. Cervantes v. Time, Inc., and Denny Walsh

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · Decided 1972-08-17

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STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge. Alfonso J. Cervantes is the mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri. In May 1970 there appeared in appellee’s Life magazine an article of 87 paragraphs accusing the mayor of maintaining “business and personal ties with the gangsters that operate in his city.” The article was entitled “The Mayor, The Mob and The Law…

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