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...courts are now being threatened by "a freshening stream of libel actions, which often seem as much designed to punish writers and publications as to recover damages for real injuries." This warning comes from Federal Judge Robert Bork, a respected conservative who is considered the leading judicial candidate for President Reagan's next appointment to the Supreme Court...
Bork was one of a 6-to-5 majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork...
...saying that "Ollman has no status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this was a "classic and coolly crafted libel." But not to Bork. Ollman, he reasoned, was no cloistered academic. He boasted that most of his students became Marxists and had invented a Monopoly- like game called Class Struggle, in which workers moved a little hammer around . a board while capitalists moved a top hat. With such advocacy, wrote Bork...
After six weeks and 13 witnesses, lawyers for Israel's former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last week rested their $50 million libel case against Time Inc. in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Paul Saunders, a lawyer for the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which is defending Time Inc., then stepped to the podium. Calling no defense witnesses, he announced, "Your Honor, we rest." Both sides will offer closing arguments when court reconvenes...
Testimony ends in Ariel Sharon's libel suit against Time...