Libel charges brought by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Kathryn S. Lewis against Philadelphia Newspapers, The Philadelphia Daily News and one of its columnists, Dan Geringer, were tossed aside in a summary judgment granted by Bucks County Senior Judge Issac Garb, who presided over the case because of Lewis’ involvement.
In an opinion dated Sept. 13, Garb said that Lewis was not entitled to recover damages because the three columns that Geringer wrote for the Daily News concerning the judge’s handling of a robbery defendant’s release from prison were not false (in which case malice is irrelevant).
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