Legal Opinion
Mihalik v. Duprey
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 25, 1981PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
Mihalik, an elected member of the Holyoke school committee, brought this action against (a) Duprey, president, and (b) Theodore Williamson, vice president, of Holyoke Teachers Association (HTA), and also (c) HTA itself. Mihalik seeks to recover for alleged defamation by an article entitled “Riddle” published about December 14, 1976, in HTA’s news letter. The defendants’ amended answer alleges that the statements in the riddle are true.
The mimeographed news letter, published at a time when labor negotiations were going on between HTA and the school committee, contained the following item —…
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