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...York Times Company announced yesterday afternoon that it will sue the Harvard Lampoon for $175,000 for "willful deceit, commercial libel and commercial defamation" in its March 7 Times parody...
...Libel Suit. One protest, signed by 52 Soviet intellectuals, decried the fact that no impartial observers had been allowed into the Moscow courtroom. "A legally conducted and organized court," they said, "need not fear the glare of publicity, but should actually welcome it." Two brothers, Biologist Yuri Vakhtin and Writer Boris Vakhtin, denounced the trial's "abnormal atmosphere" and "court violations." Noting that their father had been killed in a Stalinist purge in the 1930s, they said that they could not accept a return to that "terrible time of lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took...
...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer, and E. G. Marshall provide the courtroom drama in this TV adaptation of the Broadway play based on Attorney Louis Nizer's 1962 bestseller, My Life in Court...
...Supreme Court has made criticism of a public official virtually libel-proof. Only if a newsman maliciously lies in print can a suit be brought successfully. So it was that last month Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd called off his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson (TIME, Dec. 22). But Dodd continued to press action against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing of some of his private documents. It was those documents that Pearson and Anderson had used in the columns that first brought Dodd's financial indiscretions to light. Dodd figured that they...
...violation of Dacey's right to free speech. Late last month New York's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, held 6 to 1 that Justice Stevens was right, voided Dacey's fine and abolished the ban. Said Dacey, who brought a $1,500,000 libel action against the Florida bar last week for damaging statements in a bar Journal article: "The New York charge was nothing less than a conspiracy against me. As far as I'm concerned, the case is far from over...