Eric Waldbaum v. Fairchild Publications, Inc

U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit · Decided 1980-10-14

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TAMM, Circuit Judge: In this action we must determine when an individual not a public official has left the relatively safe harbor that the law of defamation provides for private persons and has become a public figure within the meaning of the Supreme Court’s decision in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., <a href="/opinion…

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