Randolph L. Cook v. Oprah Winfrey

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1998-04-08

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CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge. Randolph Cook had a story to tell, and he thought the segment of the press commonly known as supermarket tabloids might be interested in paying him for the rights to that story. For all this Court knows, he may have been right. The story involved a national celebrity, Oprah Winfrey, whose name is far from unfamiliar among readers of the tabloids. What is…

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