MLRC has recieved several calls for information related to the Feb. 18 verdict in Murphy v. Boston Herald, in which the jury awarded $2.1 million to a judge who the jury said had been libeled in a series of articles in the Boston Herald.
The resources below provide information to place the verdict in perspective, based on MLRC's database of 25 years of trials against the media, from 1980 to 2004.
