Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel like a champ," said onetime University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts, after an Atlanta jury awarded him $3,060,000. He had reason: it was one of the biggest libel judgments in U.S. legal history (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week in Atlanta, the same federal district judge who presided over Butts's suit against the Saturday Evening Post pared the judgment to something less than championship size. Holding that the original award was "grossly excessive," Judge Lewis R. Morgan ordered it reduced...
...anyone who blames America for the tragedy which struck in Dallas, I say you libel our people and purposely misread our politics. It was not a mind nurtured by American philosophy that turned to violence," he said. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused slayer of President Kennedy, described himself as a Marxist, although he was American...
Equal Advantage. The credit that Semenenko raised has given Curtis much-needed time to recover. Among its unresolved problems is a spate of five libel suits. Last summer a Georgia jury awarded $3,060,000 in damages to Georgia University Athletic Director Wally Butts, whom a Post article had accused of conspiring to fix a football game. The judgment has been appealed and may well be reduced-but four other suits, asking a total of $24.5 million, still await trial. It may be necessary, said Culligan, to establish a special reserve fund to accommodate such legal actions...
Simple Refusal. When the loser is insured, as is general in the auto-accident cases that make up the bulk of civil damage suits, payment normally is quick. In those liability and libel suits where huge judgments make huge headlines, the uninsured loser may pay up, post a bond and appeal - or resort to pure procrastination. Appeals are a prime source of delay and hold great promise for the loser's pocketbook. Only a few weeks ago, a New York appeals court lopped nearly $3,000,000 from the $3,500,000 libel verdict won in July...
Further attempts at delay are certain. In the libel trial itself, Powell's attorneys tried no fewer than 42 different times to postpone proceedings, and it is not likely they have run out of gambits. "This is the happiest day in my life," cried Mrs. James when the original verdict was in. But Powell's inspired procrastination ever since would seem to prove that happiness cannot buy money...