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After losing his 1985 libel suit against The Boston Globe, Westwood Republican John R. Lakian is asking the state's highest court to review the case on the grounds that the trial judge made a legal error...
...Lakian, who blames the newspaper for wrecking his 1982 campaign for governor, has also filed an appeal in the Appeals Court seeking to reverse the judgment and win "nominal damages" of at least a penny as proof that he was right...
Then, in midsummer, Janeway was confronted with a well-publicized libel trial initiated by former Massachusetts Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Lakian. Though he had nothing to do with the 1982 story that sparked Lakian's suit, Janeway attended the five-week trial every day, sitting next to the accused reporter to show his support. When the jury delivered a confusing verdict that seemed to go against the Globe, Janeway made a rare appearance in the newsroom to explain why the paper's lawyers thought that Judge George Jacobs would rule in the Globe's favor. The following week, Jacobs indeed...
...been following the Lakian trial you would know that I used the words "substantially true" as did our attorneys in court, precisely because of their meaning in legal terms. Their reference to libel, specifically, as stated in our legal briefs, is this: "The allegedly defamatory statements contained in the article need not be literally true for them to be protected, but rather must only be 'substantially true.'(There follow five legal citations which I'd be delighted to share with you, but shall not bother your readers with at this time.) Continuing. "As one court has phrased it, only...
NEVER MIND that Lakian's lawsuit was as absurd as Janeway's post-trial comment. Lakian ought to do us all a big favor and do some fact-checking on things like his upbringing, schooling, on things like his upbringing, schooling, military service and business career...