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Bertsche, who represented Roy on a probono basis, said the result clarifies the broad extent of the law to "students and professional journalists alike...
Lawyers said they believe the Roy case is thefirst instance in which a student journalist hasbeen brought to court on libel charges in thestate of Massachusetts...
...Roy said he found it "puzzling" that, with allof the controversy surrounding Martin, theprofessor chose to sue him rather than pursue morevisible critics like Washington Post columnistRichard Cohen...
Counterpoint, which was started by Roy in 1991,had a circulation of about 1500-2000 when theMartin article was published...
...dismissing the libel charges, the judgeruled that the contested statement in Roy'sarticle was neither false nor defamatory.Fabricant also found that Roy did not act withmalice. Finally, she ruled that Martin suffered nodamages as a result of the article...