Word: libeller
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...neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against him - would have collapsed. The Herald did eventually publish them, explaining that it could not do so earlier for fear of libel suits...
...passionate and imprecise discourse on CBS's Face the Nation, he damned the editorial as "the lowest kind of gutter politics." Lawyer Nixon demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit...
There may be some unexpected hazards in London's new stage freedom. The Lord Chamberlain's approval once virtually guaranteed a play immunity from lawsuits. But with that protection gone, playwrights face a bewildering maze of common-law provisions against obscenity, sedition, blasphemy and libel, not to mention a recent law against inciting racial hatred. Paradoxically, the end of licensing could lead to new restrictions, imposed by theater owners worried about possible prosecutions...
...Yeah, little things keep cropping back. Like an onion, you know, two days later. Warren Beatty. I shouldn't tell you this but I will-Warren Beatty had his lawyers draft a letter to Esquire, not threatening libel or anything, but asking for a correction. It had eleven points-eleven things he objected to. But the funny part is they were all stupid things, like he didn't really eat as many hot dogs as I said...
...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Henry Denker's 1963 courtroom drama based on Louis Nizer's account (My Life in Court) of the case of Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler. Starring Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson. Jose Ferrer and E. G. Marshall. Repeat...