Word: libellant
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...wrote and published in October 1972; it linked a Boston philanthropist and dog-track promoter, Joseph M. Linsey, to underworld elements. District Court Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld reversed his own ruling of two years ago, in which he rejected Linsey's demand, presented in a $5 million libel suit against Kelman, for the names of two people quoted but not identified in the story. Citing the Gertz decision, Blumenfeld now held that Linsey might no longer be defined as a "public figure" and therefore was entitled to get at Kelman's sources in order to try to prove...
...McCain was part of a 4-3 majority voting to hear a case that led to the reinstatement of a $100,000 libel judgment against TIME on behalf of Socialite Mary Alice Firestone Asher. The decision is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds unrelated to the scandal...
...actual plaintiff in the case, popularly known as "the Jesus trial," was Jacques Isorni, 63, an ultraconservative lawyer, legal historian and author of a 1967 book called The True Trial of Jesus. In it he blamed Pilate for the Crucifixion. The defendant, accused of libel, was the Rev. Georges de Nantes, 50, also an ultraconservative, who in a review of the book last year called Isorni a "Christian renegade" and the "apparently benevolent defender of the Jews...
...They argue that Jesus was condemned to die not because a Jewish tribunal objected to his calling himself the son of God, but because he had rebelled against the Roman occupation. In an emotional courtroom oration, Isorni claimed that if the court did not find De Nantes guilty of libel, it would in effect be "justifying him for preaching the massacre of the Jews...
...delivered by Judge Pierre Bondouaire. In it he abided by the Vatican declaration of Oct. 28, 1965, which stated that although Jewish authorities pressed for the death of Jesus, all Jews could not be held responsible for what eventually happened. The judge then found De Nantes guilty of libel. As for Isorni, he was awarded exactly what he had asked for: symbolic damages of one franc-or about...