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...Nation of Islam slammed the New York Post with a $4.4 billion libel suit over an article describing possible links between its leader, Louis Farrakhan, and the murder of Malcolm X. The Post called the lawsuit "totally without merit...
Oliphat suggested the tightening of libel standards as a means of combatting low-quality reporting...
When six tutors returned to Dun- ster in the fall, however, they found a letter,circulated by the Li brothers' lawyer. Itthreatened to file a libel suit if tutors took"any further actions to propagate false andprofessionally damaging information...
Further vengeful hints have come from MacKinnon's companion Jeffrey Masson, the critic of Freudian orthodoxy whose libel suit last year against New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm hinged in its own way on the importance of maintaining distinctions between what actually happens and what is merely imagined. (He charged that in her profile of him, Malcolm had invented scenes and quotes.) Masson assured Romano in a letter that "I am not threatening you." That was just before he added, "I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...
...People always want to bring civil suits, and Idon't want to discourage George Perry," Homanssaid. "My experience is that it's like libel andslander suits--you lose as much as you gain...