Word: libellant
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...purchaser, it turned out, was the rich, mysterious Church of Scientology, an international cult that for two decades has specialized in a unique form of psychological counseling, often against hysterical opposition. Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest provocation. In February, the Church of Scientology sued Mayor Cazares, then threatened the Clearwater Sun, the St. Petersburg Times and radio station WDCL. "We are not a turn-the-other-cheek religion," Spokesman Arthur Maren told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith...
...something unprecedented followed the article's publication. First, Rizzo hit the Inquirer with a $6-million libel suit claiming that the newspaper defamed his character and charging that it failed to indicate strongly enough that the interview was fictional. (He later testified that 25 to 30 persons, including his brother, Fire Commissioner Joseph Rizzo, had told him they believed the column was factual...
...libel suit was a minor slap in the face compared to the incident that followed. Five days after the article appeared, demonstrators from a building and trade union that has vigorously supported Rizzo in Philadelphia politics began assembling across the street of the Inquirer building at midday. By 3 p.m. enough men had gathered to block sidewalks and close off the Inquirer's entrances preventing delivery trucks from entering or leaving. The picketers carried signs saying "When is the Inquirer going to start telling the truth," and "The Inquirer is a biased paper." They closed their ranks tight enough...
...dramatic executive session of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948 (at the time, Chambers was a Senior Editor of TIME). Claiming that he had known Chambers only in 1934 and 1935 as a freelance journalist using another name, Hiss denied the charges and sued for libel, but was convicted of perjury and imprisoned. Chambers' espionage charge against him was never proved...
Loeb and New Hampshire Governor Meldrin Thompson are both suing Cash for libel, but Cash said yesterday he can "prove every fact" in his book...