Word: libellant
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Bugs and a libel suit...
...Carter. The former President's press secretary, Jody Powell, denounced the item as "unfounded and false" and demanded a retraction. So did the Carters' Washington lawyer, Terrence Adamson, who wrote to the Post that the article falsely leveled "a criminal charge" at the former President, and was "libelous." Even if the Post were to apologize, Adamson said, the Carters intended to sue the Post for libel and claim at least $1 million in damages...
...headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove to win a libel case...
...company had purchased gold faucets and other items worth $19,000 at Harrods, the expensive London department store, for the Ulster home of one of its executives. The firm reportedly "fuzzed" these expenses in bookkeeping records. De Lorean dismissed the latest charges and added: "We plan to file substantial libel actions against all the De Lorean people involved...
...Unification Church promptly threatened ABC with a $50 million libel suit, and cited an immigration official who denied that any proceedings against Moon were in the works. Then it indeed developed that an investigation is being conducted that could ultimately result in Moon's deportation, not for his sect's manipulation of thousands of young devotees, but on a technicality involving the resident status of his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. Allegedly, Mrs. Moon was granted permanent resident alien status in the U.S. on the basis of falsified credentials on her application. If the charge is proved...