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NEITLICH v. PETERSON

15 Mass. App. Ct. 622 (1983)

447 N.E.2d 671

DAVID E. NEITLICH & another vs. WAYNE N. PETERSON & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent Galvin for David E. Neitlich.

Joseph D. Steinfield (Richard M. Zielinski with him) for Wayne N. Peterson.

Present: GRANT, CUTTER, & KASS, JJ.

KASS, J.

By the time this action came to trial eight of nine counts in the complaint had fallen away. The one count remaining alleged that the defendant Wayne N. Peterson (Wayne) had libelled the plaintiff Neitlich, a lawyer, by dispatching a letter to the Massachusetts Bar Association which expressed the writer's opinion that Mr. Neitlich had violated Rule 3:22, Canon 4 and Canon 5 of the Canons of Ethics regulating members of the Massachusetts Bar.

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