Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Action on a libel suit brought by the Boston Nutrition Society against a Harvard professor, originally scheduled for the week of Oct. 16, has been postponed until November at the earliest...
Miller himself set the tone of the debates that have raged over it when he wrote in 1934: "This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character....No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Despite Time, Love, Beauty....what you will...
...After the public accusation, Hiss filed suit for libel in Baltimore, asking $75,000 damages. In a pretrial hearing, Hiss's lawyers challenged Chambers to show proof of his relationship with Hiss, and Chambers produced the famous "pumpkin papers." They were yielded to the Department of Justice, which in turn called back the grand jury. The grand jury then indicted Hiss for perjury, the count on which he was convicted and sentenced at his second trial. A year later, the libel suit was dismissed for lack of prosecution...
When Hiss counterattacked with a libel suit, Chambers finally introduced the charge of espionage, and supported his case with the nearly forgotten documents that he retrieved from his wife's nephew, who had stored them inside an unused dumb-waiter shaft. But even then, Chambers did not produce the microfilm-later he explained that he was afraid it might contain material that would damage other people. With characteristic melodrama, Chambers hid the film roll in a hollowed-out pumpkin in a field on his Maryland farm, surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected...
...case never got far enough along the legal trail for the courts to consider the merits or demerits of the libel action. But in the preliminary skirmishing last summer, Kentucky-born U.S. District Court Judge Harlan Hobart Grooms ruled that the New York Times could be sued in Alabama. It was this decision that was overturned last week by the New Orleans court, which cited a 1921 Alabama Supreme Court decision stating that in newspaper libel cases in Alabama, suit can be filed only where the newspaper is published...