Word: libeler
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...Case of Libel has been adapted by Henry Denker from a chapter in Lawyer Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
...apartment with a search warrant later discovered to be invalid. The prosecution told the press that he had been watching the coed for a long time because of her connection with YSA. She and the YSA both denied her affiliation with the socialist organization, and she threatened a libel suit...
...largest libel judgments in U.S. legal history...
...studied as advertisers assess the damage done to the Post's reputation. "The Story of a College Football Fix" was only one entry in Editor Clay Blair Jr.'s program of "sophisticated muckraking," designed to rejuvenate the magazine. That program has already generated three other libel actions-one of them filed by Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant for the very same article...
...white I'M FOR WALLY signs began to circulate outside the oak-paneled Atlanta courtroom, where former University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts's $10 million libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post was in its second week of testimony. Whether the Georgia football fans in the jury box agreed with the Georgia football fans waving the signs, would only come clear with this week's verdict.But witness after witness had already handed down an unofficial decision. For the manner in which it put together last spring's "The Story of a College Football...