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Article: US judge sets trial of Pinoy radioman
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- Filipino Reporter
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- December 14, 1995
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Edmund M. Silvestre
Filipino Reporter
12-14-1995
US judge sets trial of Pinoy radioman.
By EDMUND M. SIL VESTRE
Lino Celle, the controversial and acid-tongued host of Radio Pinoy, will go to trial over a $5 million defamation and slander suit filed against him last March 15 by a Filipina American businesswoman, the Filipino Reporter learned this week.
This came about as Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York dismissed on Dec. 4 the motion by Celle's lawyer seeking to drop the civil suit.
In denying the motion, Mukasey, who presided over the World Trade Center bombing, announced that the schedule of the court litigation will be determined at the end ...