Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal District Court Building in lower Manhattan. As dozens of reporters and spectators listened intently, the clerk asked Jury Foreman Richard Zug, an IBM computer specialist, if the panel had come to a decision. "We have," replied Zug. Reading carefully from the verdict form, Zug announced, "On actual malice: to the question, Has the plaintiff proved by clear and convincing evidence that a person or persons at Time Inc. knew that the defamatory statement was false or had serious doubts to its truth?, we find the answer...
Whether the attacks are "terrorist" or not, they are indicative not merely of the violent zeal with which some pro-liters approach abortion, but of what the actual debate on abortion has come to in this country a dangerous silence broken periodically by a bomb blast and the sound of fire sterns. Also filling this brandishing graphic photographs and drawings of aborted fetuses barricading clinic doors, harassing patients and workers and even calling abortion patients at home who are about to enter the facilities. There has been no sweeping condemnation by pro-life activists of such protests which have also...
...Party in the 1950s, the drive for imperialist war abroad has always has always justified a war at home against all opposition. Under the guise of combatting "terrorism", FBI guidelines, presidential directives, Supreme Court rulings and Congressional measures have granted sweeping powers to military and secret police agencies for actual state-supported terrorism against the American people...
Devoting 20 of his charge's 64 pages to a definition of "actual malice," Sofaer offered three separate ways in which the jurors could find against TIME. If they believed Halevy or another TIME employee had "fabricated" the story, including the claim of what was in Appendix B, then that would constitute actual malice. The jurors also could decide against TIME if they believed Sharon's charge that journalists in New York had "exaggerated or distorted" the information Halevy received to the point that they were aware that it was "probably untrue." Finally, the jurors could find actual malice...
...jury decided against TIME on "actual malice," it would then hear testimony on Sharon's reputation to determine any assessment of damages. In most libel cases, the lawyers for both sides present evidence on the plaintiff's reputation before the jury begins its overall deliberations. But after Sharon had already presented character witnesses on his own behalf, Judge Sofaer decided to split the trial; he ruled that introduction of evidence detrimental to Sharon's reputation could unfairly influence the jury on the first three issues. For Sharon to win the case, he will have to show that his reputation...