Word: libeling
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...fact been cleared of all the civil and criminal charges. The final round, unless he decides to sue a third time, of his frustrating three-year legal tug of war with Look came to a close two weeks ago when the jury in the second trial of his libel suit against the magazine voted 12 to 0 in his favor, agreeing that the article was substantially false and that it defamed Alioto. Thus vindicated, the ebullient, violin-playing mayor is now being touted as the California Democrat with the best chance of receiving his party's gubernatorial nomination...
...legal battles began with the Sept. 23, 1969, issue of Look, which included an article headlined: THE WEB THAT LINKS SAN FRANCISCO'S MAYOR ALIOTO AND THE MAFIA. The story claimed that Alioto had connections with at least six active Mafia members. Alioto aggressively counterattacked, filing a libel suit the same day he read the article...
Norman Mailer shot dead? Through the rear end? With his pants down? It's all just a bit of fiction, said Alan Lelchuk, author of a soon-to-be-published novel in which one character bears that name and suffers that fate. Libel, retorted the real Norman Mailer in a confrontation. "I wouldn't die with my pants down," said he. "You're the father of us all," Lelchuk protested. "You taught us to go as far as you can with literature." As the meeting progressed, there was "shouting and screaming and yelling," according to one participant...
...received a call from President Nixon in San Clemente. It was described by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as a "keep-your-spirits-up type call." Stans has resisted a formal committee hearing, however, and Democrats hope to subpoena him. Last week Stans filed a $5,000,000 libel suit against the former National Democratic Committee Chairman Larry O'Brien, for "falsely and maliciously accusing" him of "a number of criminal acts." Stans also filed a $2.5 million suit against O'Brien and his attorneys for using the courts "to create headlines for partisan ends...
...written by Richard Clark, an inmate leader during the rebellion. It provides explicit reportage of what happened inside convict-held territory and describes the convicts' executions of three fellow prisoners. Whether the manuscript will ever be published is problematical. Random House dropped the book after receiving threats of libel suits from prisoners' lawyers as well as warnings that the book would almost certainly be used in any state prosecution of rioters...