Word: libel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Vrdolyak accused Hynes of using his office as county tax assessor to gain more business for his law firm, Hynes was quoted in the Chicago Sun Times suggesting that Vrdolyak had met with a Mafia boss. Vrdolyak sued for libel and accused Hynes of being a "liar and a sleaze." Even Washington, who leads Hynes by 35% and Vrdolyak by 39%, could not resist stooping for a shot at his longtime enemy Vrdolyak. Said the mayor: "He's slime...
...there was hearty debate about its effects on his campaign. Referring to Bakker, Robertson said, "I think the Lord is housecleaning a little bit. I'm glad to see it happen." Meanwhile, Robertson had other pressing business. He interrupted his campaign tours to give a deposition in his two libel suits, each for $35 million, against two politicians who said that his late father, Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, had arranged to keep young Pat out of combat duty during the Korean...
Enter Norman Roy Grutman, a New York City lawyer who, incredibly, had represented Penthouse magazine against Falwell when the evangelist sued to prevent distribution of an issue containing an interview with him. In an additional twist, Grutman had also once been Falwell's lawyer in a libel case against Hustler. Now working for Bakker, Grutman declared that an unnamed evangelist had mounted an unfriendly "takeover" bid for PTL and threatened that if this preacher did not back off, "we're going to be compelled to show that there is smellier laundry in his hamper than the laundry he thought...
...this, the feisty Sofaer stands high with Secretary Shultz, who hired him after admiring his performance as federal district court judge in the libel suit by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME magazine.* The son of Sephardic Jews, Sofaer, 48, was born in Bombay, and served for a decade as a distinguished professor at Columbia Law School. From the start he was controversial at the State Department. Although the "Judge" was acknowledged to have a brilliant legal mind, his abrasiveness irritated many of his staff outside the immediate circle of newcomers he brought with...
...Supreme Court opens the door a bit wider for refugees seeking asylum. -- A libel judgment against the Washington Post is reversed...