Legal Opinion
King v. Globe Newspaper Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 17, 1987PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
This is a libel action brought by former Governor of the Commonwealth Edward J. King against The Globe Newspaper Company, publisher of The Boston Globe and The Boston Sunday Globe (Globe), two Globe columnists, David Farrell and Robert L. Turner, and a Globe cartoonist, Paul Szep. The complaint is in twelve counts. In the first two counts, the plaintiff alleges that he was libeled by an article written by the defendant Farrell and published by the Globe on *707November 8, 1981. Counts 3 and 4 make the same allegations with respect to an article written by Farrell and published by the Globe on…
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