Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boston Transcript Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 12, 1924PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
The defendant is charged with having refused to publish at its regular rates a finding by the minimum wage commission. It is provided by G. L. c. 151, § 12: “ Any newspaper refusing or neglecting to publish the findings, decrees or notices of the commission at its regular rates for the space taken shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars.” Supplementary to this is § 13 of the same chapter: “No member of the commission, and no newspaper publisher, proprietor, editor or employee thereof, shall be liable to an action for damages for publishing the name of any employer as…
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