Word: libeler
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...what may be the year's prize legal oddment, a canny convicted robber has just used Britain's stern libel laws to win a $45,000 judgment against no less a personage than the detective who sent him to jail eleven years...
Barry fired right back. "I would call that ignorant," he said, "but it certainly was within their constitutional rights to do it." Well, not really. The Constitution guarantees no one the right to libel another individual-and if Eisenhower had chosen to, he could have stuck Candymaker Welch with a libel suit that would have melted him down to peanuts...
...Yoknapatawpha County is far more than antiquarianism and an exercise in skirting the law of libel: it is a looking glass of magical power to enable the patient viewer to see the South whole...
Somebody once said that the man who fishes for black marlin probably wears a size 44 coat and a size 4 hat. That is libel, of course. But the idea is that it takes brawn to catch one-and a kind of lunacy...
...service. But to the Fort Worth jury of eight men and four women, the A.P. statements that Walker had assumed control and led the charge were both false and malicious. After 2¼ hours of deliberation, the jury awarded Walker $800,000. Still pending: some $27 million in Walker libel actions stemming from the republication of the A.P. story...