The Nation - News from Aug. 6, 1985
A jury in Dedham, Mass., ruled that five paragraphs of a Boston Globe story on former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate John R. Lakian were false and defamatory but refused to award damages. The jury ruled that the gist of the 1982 story was true, and it rejected the 1982 GOP candidate’s claim to $50 million in damages. But the jurors found five paragraphs were false when read in the context of the entire story.
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