Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal court jury last week awarded a Harvard Medical School professor $250,000 in a libel suit against an electric shaving machine manufacturer...
...that point, Mrs. James's lawyer will happily hit Powell from a new direction. He will sue the elusive Adam for punitive damages resulting from his alleged transfer of property to escape attachment for the libel debt. The new suit may ask as much...
...commentator files suit against his critics for libel and then tries to call off the trial, how do the accused clear their names? Such is the puzzle facing Margot Power, 50, a surgeon's wife, a sometime G.O.P. precinct captain and president of the Grand Traverse (Mich.) League of Women Voters...
...later bulletin, she apologized to Smoot "if we hurt his feelings," but the commentator was not moved. He slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit against Mrs. Power and three other league members, charging that he had suffered financial loss. He offered no specifics whatever, and he spent the next ten months playing possum with the court. Weary of endless pretrial conferences, Federal Judge Noel P. Fox in Grand Rapids finally ordered Smoot to post a $15,000 bond (he never has) to cover the league's legal fees if it could prove that Smoot's suit...
...clear their names, said he was convinced that Smoot had sued them as part of "a definite plan of harassment and punishment." Without a trial, said Fox, the league would be open to similar suits every time it spoke out. With a trial, the courts could attack a new libel issue-whether public commentators, like public officials, are subject to the rule of no recovery from critics except in cases of "actual malice...