Word: libellous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against all censorship, except in cases like libel, because I believe in individual freedom of expression. Of course the censorship that Mr. Bell envisions might succeed in its own terms--temporarily, at least. But they are shabby terms. Mr. Bell seems to want above all a safe society, and he has discovered that art can be dangerous. This is nothing new. As a poet in one of Yeats's plays says to the king against whom he is asserting his rights, "When did the poets promise safety, King?" Peter Wirth Teaching Fellow...
...million in damages from former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, finance chairman of the re-election committee, and others, including the seven men who either pleaded guilty or were convicted on charges stemming from the Watergate affair. In return, Stans is suing O'Brien for $5,000,000 for libel and is asking $2.5 million for "abuse of process" (in effect claiming that the Democrats have filed their suits to harass...
...therefore be insulated from grand jury inquiry, regardless of Fifth Amendment grants of immunity [from prosecution]. It might appear that such "sham" newspapers would be easily distinguishable, yet the First Amendment ordinarily prohibits courts from inquiring into the content of expression, except in cases of obscenity or libel, and protects speech and publication regardless of their motivation, orthodoxy, truthfulness, timeliness, or taste.... By affording a privilege to some organs of communication but not to others, courts would inevitably be discriminating on the basis of content...
SEVERAL LEGISLATORS suggested that a shield bill would allow journalists to perform irresponsibly and to escape libel suits. In response, witnesses stressed that a shield law would not affect a newspaper's responsibility for what it prints. Newspapers, not sources, are sued for allegedly libelous statements...
...evasion, an issue that is not of much help to the Gaullists these days. Last week the wife of a tax inspector who has been charged with fraud insisted that the government look into the income tax returns of three former Cabinet ministers. The politicians promptly sued for libel, but even the cautious Paris daily Le Monde felt compelled to ask for an investigation of "this affair, which is not only dangerous for the Gaullist majority, but discredits the regime and besmirches the state...