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- Title: John S. Burgess v. Reformer Publishing
- Author : Supreme Court of Vermont
- Release Date : January 28, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
Description
Plaintiff-appellant, John S. Burgess, appeals an order of the superior court granting summary judgment on plaintiff's libel action in favor of defendants-appellees, Reformer Publishing Corporation and reporter George Carvill. We believe that the trial court erred in ruling, as a matter of law, that plaintiff was a ""public official"" at the time of the alleged libel. We also believe that the trial court erroneously concluded that the publication could not support a defamation action and therefore reverse. In March, 1979, the Brattleboro Reformer printed an article concerning a grand jury investigation of an alleged embezzlement of federal funds by the former president of the then-defunct Mark Hopkins College. The headline read: ""Grand Jury Probes Embezzlement--Mark Hopkins: Burgess Denies Getting Funds.""