· 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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