William Janklow v. Newsweek, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · Decided 1986-04-10

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ARNOLD, Circuit Judge. William Janklow, the Governor of South Dakota, filed this defamation action against Newsweek magazine based on an article in the weekly’s February 21, 1983, issue about American Indian activist Dennis Banks. The article, “Dennis Banks’s Last Stand,” purports to give a history of the relationship between Banks, who fled the state in the mid-1970’…

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