Word: libellant
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...Maugham's works consist almost entirely of events or characters lifted directly from his life: like his character Alroy Kear, for example, based on Hugh Walpole, Maugham's friend until the publication of Cakes and Ale--so thinly disguised, as well as unflattering, that those involved sued Maugham for libel...
...once, not several times, as she had reported, and called her verdict "venal." Both assertions were ordered deleted by the Times's "continuity director"-i.e., advertising censor-and the Lums complied. As for holding the paper and its critic accountable, the Lums talked of filing a $2 million libel suit...
...into debt to the tune of $2,400. Stung by the adverse publicity, the Globe last week resumed deliveries to Manoogian. Said the paper's circulation manager: "It's a no-win situation." As for Manoogian, his big story now is that he is planning a libel suit...
...publishers, since it came only from a lower state court and thus sets no precedent that courts elsewhere must follow. Nonetheless, many authors and publishers are understandably worried that it could spur similar suits involving other works of fiction, which in the past have rarely been the targets of libel actions. The Supreme Court's decision to let the ruling stand, argues Vidal, is thus in effect "a hunting license, a declaration of open season on almost any sort of novelist...
Writers are also riled by Doubleday's suit against Davis. Like most such agreements, her contract for Touching contains an indemnity clause entitling Doubleday to recover costs it may have to bear as a result of a libel suit. But publishers, including Doubleday, have rarely invoked this clause. This time, however, Doubleday felt Davis had not leveled with her editor on the potential for trouble. The clause has to be invoked sometimes, reasons a publishing house attorney, because "otherwise publishers would be at the total mercy of someone who walks in and presents a manuscript...