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...other major decisions* handed down on the final day of its term, the Supreme Court nailed up fences protecting 1) federal officials, and 2) broadcasting stations from important types of libel suits...
...effective administration of policies." So saying, the Court extended to all policymaking federal officials a rule that it had applied to Cabinet officers back in 1896: they have "absolute privilege" in making statements on "matters committed by law to [their] control or supervision," meaning that they are immune from libel suits even if a statement is malicious and false...
...state our opinions in any way we like," said Justice Cyril Salmon, "diffidently, decorously, politely and discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired...
Last week, three years after he wrote the column, Columnist Connor played a part in the biggest Liberace show in years -the trial of the high-tuned pianist's suit for libel against Connor and his paper. Before an overstuffed gallery of matronly bosoms, Liberace charged in London's Queen's Bench Division court that the offending column cast reflections on his gender by implying that he was less than a man: "This article has attacked me below the belt on a moral issue. On my word of God, on my mother's health, which...
...YORK DAILY-NEWS: Morse has long hounded, harassed and blackguarded Mrs. Luce from his libel-suit-proof position in the U.S. Senate. We hope the Senator is satisfied. It will be interesting to learn, though, whether Morse's Oregon constituents enjoy seeing a yahoo bully a lady...