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SALVO v. OTTAWAY NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. 01-P-676.

57 Mass. App. Ct. 255 (2003)

S. STEVE SALVO v. OTTAWAY NEWSPAPERS, INC.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 29, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger D. Matthews for the defendant.

Edmund C. Smith for the plaintiff.

Present: DUFFLY, KAFKER, & GREEN, JJ.

KAFKER, J.

Reading between the lines of a Salem Evening News article, the motion judge concluded that possibly defamatory inferences might be drawn from the facts reported and, so, denied summary judgment for the media defendant in a defamation action brought by the plaintiff, S. Steve Salvo.1 Salvo, a former city councillor and brother of a former mayor of Salem, claimed that the newspaper defamed him in its article regarding his family...

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