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HOWELL v. THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC.

SJC-10359.

455 Mass. 641 (2010)

JAMES F. HOWELL v. THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC, & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

January 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan M. Albano (Laura K. Langley & Peter J. Caruso with him) for the defendants.

John G.H. Coster for the plaintiff.

Paul Bender, Michael R. Klipper, & Christopher A. Mohr, of the District of Columbia, & William S. Strong & Amy C.M. Burke, for The Associated Press & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

CORDY, J.

James Howell served as the superintendent of the sewer department for the town of Abington (town). On May 9, 2005, he was placed on administrative leave, and he was eventually fired from his position. The catalyst for Howell's discipline was the discovery of inappropriate images on computers owned by the sewer department. Almost immediately after he was placed on administrative leave, reporters working for The Enterprise Publishing Company, LLC, began covering...

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