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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...
...appeal is important, Fox said, aside from the question of vindication because Lakian has another lawsuit pending against the Globe on behalf of his Fort Hill investment company, which Lakian claims was damaged by the article. If he prevails in the personal libel case, Lakian would be in a stronger position to collect substantial damages in the Fort Hill case...
...attacking enemies in print. Fighting Back, to be published by Simon & Schuster in February, is a stinging critique of the Washington Post, which in 1979 published articles accusing Tavoulareas of using Mobil funds to help set up his son Peter in the shipping business. Tavoulareas sued the paper for libel and won a $2.1 million jury judgment. The ruling was later reversed and then reinstated. That decision was put aside when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington agreed to review the case. A ruling is pending...
Moreover, Rusher said, the public believes the media has more special constitutional privileges than they do have, but it also believes libel laws protect the public from the press...
...carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal violated his right to free speech. In another action, Killington has filed a libel suit against the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus newspaper for publishing a cartoon showing two skiers riding a ski lift carrying toilet plungers instead of ski poles. The caption: "Uh-oh, looks like the snowmaking machines are clogged again...