Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press, leaves such offenders beyond the reach of any law. In the current issue of the New York University Law Review, Justice Black extended his version of the Bill of Rights even farther. "I have no doubt myself," said he, "that the provision intended that there should be no libel or defamation law in the United States Government, just absolutely none." Right to Speak. Even N.Y.U. Law Professor Edmond Cahn, whose dialogue with Justice Black forms the basis of the Law Review article, seemed astonished at Black's stand. Did that mean, Cahn asked, that a U.S. citizen...
...Hastings College of the Law, felt that "Black has gone off the deep end on this one." Against such critics Justice Black preserved the traditional silence of the nation's loftiest bench. But few newspapers and magazines are likely to follow his lead and challenge the libel laws. The press is well aware that Justice Black's extreme position is-to put it in lower case-a minority opinion...
...damage is done by the omission of reports or the watering down of reports that should have been printed. We have now reached a point where strictures on a provincial police force will produce a libel action from the chief constable, which he will probably...
...operation of the libel laws is even more serious. Judges and juries are increasingly inclined to regard any criticism as defamation and to award damages out of all relation to any harm done. The trouble here is not that newspapers do commit libels and do pay heavy damages...
...very happy journey, clouded politically because England was about to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico and personally because a rather odd libel action had been brought against me by Miss Shirley Temple, the child film star. When I returned from the south to Mexico City with an attack of dysentery, I found a letter from my publisher . . . the Lord Chief Justice had taken a severe view of the case and there was some danger that I might be arrested on my return. But by the time I had received my mail I had taken such a distaste to Mexico...