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Article: Paper: $3.5M defamation award fixed by Pa. judge
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- February 19, 2009
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A newspaper said Thursday that a $3.5 million defamation award against it was fixed by a corrupt judge with connections to a reputed mobster at the heart of the case.
The extraordinary claim was made by the parent company of The Citizens' Voice in court papers asking the state Supreme Court to overturn the 2006 award by Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, who recently was convicted in a kickbacks scheme.
The Supreme Court should "vacate a judgment that very likely was a product of a corrupt judicial system," the paper said in a legal filing that signaled the widening fallout from one of the worst judicial corruption scandals in recent U.S. history.
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