Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right-wing Likud coalition: "Everything leads to the conviction that Labor will not head the government any longer." Not quite. Likud Leader Menachem Begin is still in the hospital after a severe heart attack, and Yigael Yadin, head of the upstart Democratic Movement for Change, is fighting libel charges. Even so, Labor Stalwart Abba Eban confessed to doubts that the party "can still turn the wheel and gain momentum." If not, the sad end of Yitzhak Rabin could be followed by the demise of the Labor government he has suddenly ceased to lead...
...better to err on the side of free speech." So saying, Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals snatched back $125,002 that Author A.E. Hotchner thought he had won last year in a libel suit. Hotchner, a longtime friend of Ernest Hemingway and writer of the memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed...
...which had declined to participate in the group effort. Bolles' own paper, the Arizona Republic, did not run the series on the ground that it was inadequately documented. Barry Goldwater, who had refused to be interviewed for the series, responded with outrage and hinted at the "biggest ever" libel suit in U.S. history. He also challenged Robert Greene, the Newsday editor who directed the investigative group, to name one gangster living in Arizona. Greene quickly responded with the name of Joe Bonanno, who lives in Tucson, and he said he could produce another...
...Jeffrey Leonard '76, the author of the parody--whom a Yale official threatened with arrest for libel--was in London yesterday and could not be reached for comment...
...problem is that Britain has no equivalent of First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Instead, British journalists face a daunting obstacle course of legal restrictions: 1) strict libel laws that allow even notorious public figures to win damages for disclosures that in the U.S. would not be considered actionable; 2) stringent contempt-of-court rules under which a journalist can be jailed for any original reporting about a matter that is sub judice, that is, before a court; 3) the principle of "confidence," which protects from disclosure industrial secrets and other private information that would be considered fair game...