Legal Opinion
Yovino v. Fish
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 7, 1989No. 88-P-132PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
It was not exactly “The War of the Worlds,” 2 but some listeners were taken in. On July 16, 1982, a “talkmaster,” Jerry Williams, broadcasting over radio station WRKO-AM, interviewed a comic who impersonated then mayor of Boston, Kevin H. White. “His Honor,” the honorific which Williams • lavished upon his guest, took calls from the radio audience. He pretended to be the mayor, although greatly exaggerating the mannerisms of the persona of the real mayor. Broad as the caricature may have been, the impersonator induced a flurry of phone calls to City Hall in which the callers made unflattering…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. FalwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Fortune v. National Cash Register Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert NovakCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by15 opinions
- King v. DriscollMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- ELSENBERG v. Alameda Newspapers, Inc.California Court of Appeal · 1999
- Baybank v. DiricoMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1996
- Galdauckas v. Interstate Hotels Corp. No. 16District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1995
- Altman v. MesbahiMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1999
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