Word: libellous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uzzis have served the Times with a 41-page brief citing 15 alleged violations of New York's "Right of Privacy" law and libel laws and are expected to deliver the brief to Lampoon lawyers in New York in the next few days...
...ready to shell out $10 million for libel and invasion of privacy?" five members of a family pictured in the parody issue are now asking back...
Sound funny? It's not. The Harvard Lampoon Inc. and the New York Times Company have been named co-defendants in a libel and invasion of privacy suit served on the Times last week in New York...
...Previons libel suits have usually involved millions of dollars when initially filed and often take three to five years before a final decision is reached. Because the Times and the Lampoon are registered in different states, there will be a jurisdictional problem before court action can even begin...
...show. It worked fine as a local New York program but became hypersensational when it went network on ABC. Wallace-in the one tape in his whole career that he would like to erase-egged Mobster Mickey Cohen into calling a police officer a "sadistic degenerate" and an "alcoholic." Libel suits for $3,000,000 followed; they were settled for much less, but within a year the series was dumped. Wallace became a sort of Sonny Listen of broadcasting: the mean, out-of-work ex-champ...