Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil liberties. Always articulate in his opinions, Black has become the acknowledged leader of the Supreme Court's liberal bloc. The Bill of Rights is Black's bible-and he takes it as literally as the Biblical fundamentalists. Thus, he recently argued (off the bench) that libel and slander laws are an infringement on freedom of the press and of speech as guaranteed by the Constitution...
Faulk brought suit for libel against AWARE, Inc., and against Vincent Hartnett, writer of the pamphlet, and Laurence Johnson, a Syracuse supermarket operator and AWARE, Inc. member, who energetically circulated Hartnett's pamphlet to TV sponsors. The case finally came to trial last April...
...Faulk case no one had ever had the courage to bite back. Faulk's attorney was Louis Nizer, who had earlier helped Quentin Reynolds win a $175,001 verdict in his 1954 suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, the highest award ever made by a jury in a libel case...
...these private vigilante groups." As the trial reached its climax last-week, it was momentarily confused by the death of Defendant Johnson, but the judge declared that Johnson's estate was still liable. The jury then awarded Faulk compensatory and punitive damages that set a new record for libel suits...
Zenger (1697-1746) was brought to trial in 1735 for publishing the New York Weekly Journal, which contained articles attacking the arbitrary measures of the Governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was arrested on the charge of false and scandalous libel, and imprisoned and held incommunicado for nine months. Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, argued that the statements published were in fact true. In deciding for Zenger, the principle was established that the publication of truthful statements could not be considered libelous...