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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1967

Thomas M. Piracci, Infant, by His Mother and Next Friend, Violet M. Piracci v. The Hearst Corporation, a Body Corporate

Thomas M. Piracci, Infant, by His Mother and Next Friend, Violet M. Piracci v. The Hearst Corporation, a Body Corporate
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · Decided January 16, 1967 · Boreman, Craven, Per Curiam, Russell
371 F.2d 1016 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Thomas M. Piracci, Infant, by His Mother and Next Friend, Violet M. Piracci v. The Hearst Corporation, a Body Corporate

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

Thomas M. Piracci seeks damages claimed to have been sustained by him when he was fifteen years of age through the publication of an allegedly libelous article appearing in the August 16, 1965, issue of the Baltimore News American, a newspaper owned and published by the defendant. The District Court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

We affirm for the reasons stated by the District Court in its written opinion. 1

Affirmed.

1

. Piracci v. The Hearst Corporation, 263 F.Supp. 511 (D.C.D.Md. 1966).

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