Newspaper Pays Libel Ruling To Judge - Democratic Underground

LeighAnn

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Tue Jun-12-07 11:12 AM
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Newspaper Pays Libel Ruling To Judge

Source: WLBZ-TV Bangor (NBC)

The Boston Herald has paid a Superior Court judge $3.4 million dollars after the state's highest court refused to reconsider its decision to uphold a libel verdict against the newspaper.

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Murphy claimed in his libel suit that the Herald had depicted him as soft on crime and insensitive to the suffering of a 14-year-old rape victim in a series of articles published in 2002.
A jury found in the judge's favor and the Supreme Judicial Court later upheld the verdict. The newspaper asked the high court to reconsider, but it refused.

Read more: http://www.wlbz2.com/news/regional/article.aspx?storyid=63179

Not much more at the article... This should make Bill O'Lielly and Faux News nervous.

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fasttense

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Tue Jun-12-07 11:22 AM
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1. The headline makes it sound as if they are paying off the judge.

Yet they are simply paying off their debt.

"The money wired to Judge Ernest Murphy includes two million dollars awarded in the verdict and $1.4 million in interest."

So does the judge then distributes the money to the victim of the libel?

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Tue Jun-12-07 11:23 AM
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2. I believe the Judge was the victim. nt

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Bake

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Tue Jun-12-07 11:26 AM
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3. This was the case where the Herald reporter went on O'Really

The reporter essentially republished the libel by putting it out on Billo's show. There was some discussion on KO when the story broke a few days ago about whether Billo should have been a defendant as well.

Bake

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