Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision reversed a $500,000 libel judgment against the New York
Times and four Negro clergymen in Alabama. But it did far more than wipe out the award. It defused a welter of libel cases brought by public officials in the South against assorted critics, including nine other cases against the Times. And by holding that Alabama's libel laws are unconstitutionally broad, the court cast doubt on similar state libel laws all over...
...subject of Courant stories, he was a reader and advertiser. On March 14, 1796, he bought half a page in the paper to offer some of his Virginia farm land for lease to "real farmers of good reputation, and none others need apply." Thomas Jefferson sued the paper for libel after an 1806 Courant accusation that he had secretly bribed France to win its support. He lost his case in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...E.N.I, and Gulf Italia ended, and the two protagonists prepared to join in a $150 million oil deal. Nicky Pignatelli, 40, is no man to run from a fight; he had held off the left by forcefully debating Mattei face to face, once successfully sued a Communist newspaper for libel after it accused Gulf Italia of using improperly obtained government surveys to locate its oil. On the other hand, the prince is not inclined to fight needlessly when a deal can be made. E.N.I.'s pipelines and service stations stretch from England to Ethiopia, but the state monopoly...
...sound basis upon which to form an opinion. However, your article concerning the Goldmark case [Jan. 31] was just a little too liberal for even me to stand. You are in essence saying that to call a political candidate a Communist or a Communist sympathizer in print is libel. How ridiculous...