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...James sued Powell for libel, went to court, won a $211,500 jury verdict, which a judge later cut down to $46,500. To avoid paying off, Powell has since steered clear of New York, spent most of his time commuting between Capitol Hill, where he manages to appear for two or three days every week or so, and his villa in Puerto Rico. Interest on his evaded libel penalty has increased the amount owed to $52,000, and last week a jury, reviewing the whole history of the case, awarded Mrs. James an additional $210,000 for a total...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...
...federal court jury last week awarded a Harvard Medical School professor $250,000 in a libel suit against an electric shaving machine manufacturer...
...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...