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NATIONAL ASS'N OF GOVT. EMPL. v. CENTRAL BROADCASTING

379 Mass. 220 (1979)

396 N.E.2d 996

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, INC. vs. CENTRAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

November 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan T. Lawson (Howard J. Wayne with him) for the defendant.

Robert H. Goldman (Michael D. Quinlan with him) for the plaintiff.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

National Association of Government Employees, Inc., is a labor union in the form of a nonprofit Delaware corporation, having a division known as the International Brotherhood of Police Officers with a Local No. 398 in the small town of Ware.1 The union complained in Superior Court of an alleged libel — a charge of "communism" — made by or on behalf of the defendant Central Broadcasting Corporation, owner of radio...

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