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Somerville Scout briefly covers Jonmon-DSLJ lawsuit, gets it *almost* right
The current issue of Somerville Scout, which is hitting a lot of snail-mailboxes today, has this short item on page 7, under the heading W&L: WINNERS
JOHN DOEA crew of citizen journalists, including "100 John and Jane Does" from Davis Square's LiveJournal, deserves props for fighting a $5.5 million libel lawsuit filed by Jonathan Graves Monsarrat who was upset by the message board's comments about his 2010 arrest involving underage teens. Fortunately, the case was dropped without prejudice.
Actually, it was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be filed again. I used this form to ask Scout to correct the item before they put it online.
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Also, the "the case was dropped...." bit is unclear. Is it referring to the charges, or the lawsuit he brought?
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ETA: Oh, I see what you're saying now. The charges against Jonmon three years ago were also dropped -- whether or not with prejudice, I don't know.
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(I thought Scout was automatically delivered to every residential address in the city.)
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