The U.S. District Court here has dismissed a lawsuit brought by David McCalden, a distributor of printed matter alleging the Holocaust never occurred, who claimed his civil rights were violated.
McCalden headed the Institute for Historical Review, which publishes and circulates material denying the Holocaust and currently runs an organization known as “Truth Missions,” which makes the same allegations.
His suit charged the Simon Weisenthal Center, the American Jewish Committee, the California Library Association and the Bonaventure Hotel with breach of contract and violation of civil rights after the Library Association cancelled McCalden’s scheduled appearance at its 1984 annual conference at the Bonaventure Hotel.
Judge Consuelo Marshall of the U.S. District Court dismissed the case against all of the defendants, except the City of Los Angeles. McCalden was given 10 days to show cause in writing why the remaining action against the municipality should not be dismissed.
Marshall ruled that the complainant was unable to demonstrate he was the victim of discrimination within the meaning of the Federal and State Civil Rights Acts.
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