Word: libellous
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...having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This was no memoir, no scholarly retrospective. It was the first testimony, by one of the architects of America's longest and costliest war, in what may prove to be the most celebrated libel case in U.S. history: Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS News. After almost three years of crossfire in the court of public opinion, the battle is under way in a court...
...inability of a news organ to be sure that it has not been used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then...
...libel case is scaled back...
When Dan Burt, the attorney for retired General William Westmoreland in his $120 million libel suit against CBS News, made his opening statement to the jury last week, he relied heavily on assertions about the intentions of the producers of the documentary in question, The Uncounted Enemy. Among the most compelling evidence that CBS must face is its own in-house investigation, which Burt forced it to make public. Ironically, just as the case came to trial, a federal judge threw out most of a precedent-setting earlier case-also involving CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace and a Viet...
Federal District Judge Charles Haight's action last week did not affect that principle. But he ruled that nine of Herbert's eleven assertions of libel lacked factual basis. According to CBS, the remaining issues are minor. Said Herbert's attorney, Jonathan Lubell: "We thought many more issues should have gone to the jury. But given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory...