Word: libellant
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...Allred presented her testimony and then gave Schmitz a black leather chastity belt. Schmitz, in a press release, later described the meeting as filled with "hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces" and called Allred a "slick butch lawyeress." Allred did what came naturally, slapping him with a $10 million libel suit. At a subsequent press conference called by Schmitz to discuss Middle East tensions, she showed up to present him with a box of frogs. Cried Allred: "A plague on the house of Schmitz...
Ariel Sharon's libel suit against Time Inc. goes to trial...
...discussed revenge. He contends, moreover, that the secret appendix, which remains classified, does not say he talked about revenge with the Gemayels. Sharon insists that the TIME statements suggest that he encouraged or condoned the murders, and that the magazine has injured his political reputation and committed a "blood libel" against Israel. Sharon currently serves as his country's Minister of Industry and Trade...
...Sharon sat on a front bench, his wife Lili with him, Judge Sofaer began the trial by instructing the six-person jury on the legal definition of libel. Drawing upon U.S. Supreme Court rulings on what a public figure must show to prove "actual malice," Sofaer said Sharon's lawyers must demonstrate not only that the TIME paragraph was "false and defamatory" but that the magazine published it with "conscious awareness of falsity or with serious doubts as to the truth...
...courtroom six floors below the one in which Ariel Sharon testified, another general last week took the stand in a $120 million libel suit against CBS. Dressed in a crisp, gray suit and sporting a small red-and-white striped Viet Nam service ribbon, the ramrod-straight William Westmoreland, 70, former commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, recounted his 36 years of military service. Then he launched into a rebuttal of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the 1982 CBS documentary that is at issue in the trial...