Tort Law
After Losing Libel Claim, Newspaper Editorializes About Case, Is Sued for Libel by Lawyer and Judge
It must seem like deja vu to the Southside Voice Inc., owner of the Richmond Voice.
In 2009, the company was sued for libel over a letter to the editor the newspaper had published about a teacher. A $125,000 award resulted in 2010, about which the Voice published an editorial.
Now another libel suit has been filed, this time by the plaintiffs lawyer and judge in the earlier case who were mentioned in the editorial, according to Richmond Biz Sense.
The newspaper’s president, Jack Green, who allegedly wrote the editorial, declined comment on the Chesterfield County Circuit Court suit.
It was filed by attorney Wayne Barry Montgomery and Richmond Circuit Court Judge Melvin Hughes Jr.
