Word: libeling
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...does not constitute proof of guilt in a civil case growing out of the same offense. And British courts allowed a special twist in 1964, when Convicted Safecracker Alfie Hinds realized that the one- court-does-not-recognize-what-the-other-is-doing theory could also be applied to libel cases. He sued a retired police inspector who had arrested him and who had written a series of articles saying that he was guilty. The libel jury awarded Alfie $3,640 in damages. Using the same theory, Convicted Train Robber Goody planned to nick The People for a few thousand...
This month, after more than a year of litigation, the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the latest decision against Wirges-a perjury conviction and a three-year prison sentence. The charges stemmed from a libel suit brought against Wirges after his newspaper accused Hawkins' machine of election frauds. During the libel trial, Wirges denied that he had written a certain column; the sheriff's witness swore he had. Hawkins' word, prevailed-at least temporarily...
...Field Enterprises in 1955, plans to spruce up the News's front page and to expand its coverage of the "Lower 48" when he takes over in September. Since its founding in 1946, the paper has been politically independent-and adventurous enough to have become embroiled in seven libel suits. By keeping it that way, Fanning hopes to catch up some day with Anchorage's afternoon Times, whose circulation of 22,000 makes it the biggest state's biggest newspaper...
...dramatically made by Mrs. John T. McCullough, then a resident of Greenwich, Conn., who objected to a local appearance by Adler and Dancer Paul Draper on the ground that their appearances at certain political rallies showed they were "proCommunist" in sympathy. Adler and Draper countered with a widely publicized libel suit that ended in a hung jury...
...that the Post, unlike A.P., had been guilty of "actual malice." To dissenting Justice Black, any test of "unreasonable conduct" on the part of publishers, as promulgated by Harlan, seemed a promise of new problems. "If this precedent is followed," warned Black, "it means that we must in all libel cases hereafter weigh the facts and hold that all papers and magazines guilty of gross writing or reporting are constitutionally liable, while they are not, if the quality of the reporting is approved by a majority of us. It strikes me that the court is getting itself in the same...