Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation appointees would regularly leak material from confidential files to The Crimson, which would regularly publish them if they fell short of criminal libel. Critics of this practice would be pilloried as enemies of freedom of speech...
Unlike many of their French newspaper competitors (and like U.S. food critics), Gault and Millau consistently name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well...
...while the "little American" worked on this affair (in which he finally won a $150 million settlement) that Second Lieut. Inouye lost his right arm in Army combat in Europe. Among Wilson's other famous cases: a 1970 victory in the Supreme Court upholding Barry Goldwater's libel judgment of $75,000 against Eros and Fact Publisher Ralph Ginzburg; and the initial defeat of President Truman's 1952 seizure of steel companies. In the steel case, curiously, Wilson argued for a limited constitutional interpretation of presidential power, a position he now attacks on behalf of Haldeman...
...Ehrlichman's crusty counsel. Noted as a criminal lawyer and former prosecutor rather than a constitutional expert, Wilson at times was so persistent in being heard that Ervin amiably protested: "But you are not a witness." In his half-century career, Wilson has helped Barry Goldwater win a libel suit against Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, and successfully aided Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in resisting an attempted seizure by President Truman. He does not approve of most conservative Republicans because "most of them aren't conservative enough...
...Haldeman and John Ehrlichman decided on John J. Wilson, 71, a well-established, first-rank Washington trial lawyer who won a libel suit five years ago for Barry Goldwater against Publisher Ralph Ginzburg. An avowedly conservative Republican, Wilson may well share any concern Haldeman and Ehrlichman have about protecting the presidency from unnecessary involvement...