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"Someone Must Have Taken the Bar Exam for You" Was Just Insult, Not Libel

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From Lucey v. Kinnon, decided Dec. 15 by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, in an opinion by Justice John Englander, joined by Judges Eric Neyman and Joseph Ditkoff (affirming a decision I blogged about here in 2024): The defendant Neil Kinnon insulted the plaintiff, Scott Lucey, on the webpage for a Facebook group known as "Malden (MA) Politics." {Kinnon is a former Malden city councillor, and Lucey, an attorney, had been a frequent participant i…

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"Someone Must Have Taken the Bar Exam for You" Was Just Insult, Not Libel

From Lucey v. Kinnon, decided Dec. 15 by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, in an opinion by Justice John Englander, joined by Judges Eric Neyman and Joseph Ditkoff (affirming a decision I blogged about here in 2024): The defendant Neil Kinnon insulted the plaintiff, Scott Lucey, on the webpage for a Facebook group known as "Malden (MA) Politics." {Kinnon is a former Malden city councillor, and Lucey, an attorney, had been a frequent participant i…

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