Court Opinion

ID: 9480429
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:47:50.068126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:41.182910
License: Public Domain

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
While I concur fully in the result, I do not join in the court’s discussion in part II concerning “Reputation Damages in an Ordinary Negligence Case.” I do not join because, as the court points out, plaintiffs’ *528failure to adduce sufficient evidence on causation is a sufficient reason to deny relief. Our discussion on reputation law, therefore, is dicta. While I admire both the scholarship and the force of this interesting discussion, the dicta it sets forth is clearly not a reflection, institutionally, of the views of this court. The dicta, moreover, is in an area where the Massachusetts courts, not the federal courts, make the law. Insofar as the author seeks to encourage Massachusetts to take a view more expansive than that currently prevailing around the nation (and there is more than a little suggestion of that in the discussion), such encouragement seems to me to belong in a scholarly journal rather than as part of a judicial opinion.