Word: libeled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Supreme Court considered one kind of ranting not long ago in the case of a North Carolina man who wrote two colorful letters to the President urging him not to appoint a judge named David Smith as U.S. Attorney for North Carolina. Smith sued the man for libel. The letter writer said that the First Amendment surely protected a citizen's right to send an angry letter to Washington. The court said no, a nasty letter to the President or Congress, even if sent in exercise of the constitutional right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances...
...period when many newspapers feel that their readers don't love them, the increase in libel suits and costly verdicts may seem further evidence of reader (and juror) dissatisfaction. But the situation may not be all that...
...poll of readers found that about two out of three consider their local paper reliable. But perhaps the most telling reader criticism was a feeling that reporters are too intent on "getting a good story and don't worry much about hurting people." People feeling hurt is what makes libel suits...
Some recent large libel awards against newspapers do not reflect an increased animus toward the press, in the opinion of Robert Sack, a libel attorney who represents the Wall Street Journal. He thinks that jurors get used to reading about large awards in injury or malpractice cases. Libel suits rarely show out-of-pocket losses, but "when the question turns on how much a man's reputation is worth," Sack believes, "round numbers will come to the juror's mind." What made a $50 million libel suit against the Boston Globe remarkable last week was a verdict that found five...
High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case, wrote in his decision that Irving had “persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence...is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism...