Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This month, after more than a year of litigation, the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the latest decision against Wirges-a perjury conviction and a three-year prison sentence. The charges stemmed from a libel suit brought against Wirges after his newspaper accused Hawkins' machine of election frauds. During the libel trial, Wirges denied that he had written a certain column; the sheriff's witness swore he had. Hawkins' word, prevailed-at least temporarily...
...Field Enterprises in 1955, plans to spruce up the News's front page and to expand its coverage of the "Lower 48" when he takes over in September. Since its founding in 1946, the paper has been politically independent-and adventurous enough to have become embroiled in seven libel suits. By keeping it that way, Fanning hopes to catch up some day with Anchorage's afternoon Times, whose circulation of 22,000 makes it the biggest state's biggest newspaper...
...last week's review, the Supreme Court upheld Butts's libel judgment, rejected Walker's. More important, it began to develop tests for determining when public figures can recover for libel, and when they cannot...
Accepted Standards. In Walker's case, the court was unanimous for reversal, although divided over the reason. Justice Black, joined by Douglas, argued once again that "the First Amendment was intended to leave the press free from the harassment of libel judgments." Chief Justice Warren and Justices Brennan and White held that public figures must also prove "actual malice" in accordance with the Times formula, which Walker had not done...
...that the Post, unlike A.P., had been guilty of "actual malice." To dissenting Justice Black, any test of "unreasonable conduct" on the part of publishers, as promulgated by Harlan, seemed a promise of new problems. "If this precedent is followed," warned Black, "it means that we must in all libel cases hereafter weigh the facts and hold that all papers and magazines guilty of gross writing or reporting are constitutionally liable, while they are not, if the quality of the reporting is approved by a majority of us. It strikes me that the court is getting itself in the same...