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· 4/23/1985

Tartaglia v. Townsend

Citations

  • 477 N.E.2d 178
  • 19 Mass. App. Ct. 693
  • 1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1709

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that an employee of the Brockton Water Department was not a public official
  • considering “tone of the article as a whole” in determining capacity for defamatory meaning
  • statement must be read in its context, and its defamatory tendency must be “specific and significant”

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Judges: Brown, Cutter, Kass

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