Chapin v. Knight-Ridder, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 1993-05-19

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OPINION K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge: Plaintiffs Roger Chapin and Help Hospitalized Veterans, Inc., appeal the district court’s order granting defendants’ motion to dismiss this libel action. We must decide whether a newspaper article published by defendants can be reasonably read to express the libelous meanings ascribed to it by the plaintiffs. Concluding that it cannot, we affirm. I.</p…

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