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...courts are now being threatened by "a freshening stream of libel actions, which often seem as much designed to punish writers and publications as to recover damages for real injuries." This warning comes from Federal Judge Robert Bork, a respected conservative who is considered the leading judicial candidate for President Reagan's next appointment to the Supreme Court...
...Bork was one of a 6-to-5 majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork...
...Marxist professor at New York University, who claimed that he lost his chance to become head of the University of Maryland's political science department because of a column they wrote criticizing his proposed appointment. He sued for $1 million, plus $5 million in punitive damages, sums that Bork called "quite capable of silencing political commentators forever...
...status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this was a "classic and coolly crafted libel." But not to Bork. Ollman, he reasoned, was no cloistered academic. He boasted that most of his students became Marxists and had invented a Monopoly- like game called Class Struggle, in which workers moved a little hammer around . a board while capitalists moved a top hat. With such advocacy, wrote Bork, Ollman had made himself...
...know? ... I suggested returning to the simple standard of whether it was true or not, because you would eliminate all of that search ..Lastly, I think we have to get at the judge jury question. The Supreme Court has been reluctant to do that I think quite wrongly. Judge Bork, who is regarded as a Reaganite conservative, says in this opinion that it is the duty of a trial judge not to let any speech or writing go to a jury in a libel case if the speech or writing is in what he calls the "public, political arena...