Word: libellous
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...held a gun with two hands over his head." Though the TV report was not aired in the Philippines, and is not admissible as official testimony, it received coverage in Manila newspapers. Lawyers acting on behalf of the AVSECOM troopers involved promptly filed a $350,000 criminal libel suit against Regalado. Fearing for his life, Regalado said he would remain in hiding...
More ammo for a libel suit...
General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS News is not scheduled to come to trial until fall, but both sides are already in full cry. Last week Westmoreland held his third press conference on the dispute to brandish a 5-Ib. packet of testimony, which he said debunks the network's January 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. CBS hit back at a news conference 20 minutes later, 100 yards away in the same Washington hotel, with its own 1¼lb. sheaf of affidavits. Neither side uncovered a "smoking gun," but each...
Then last month, in an unprecedented action, Random House abruptly recalled all 58,000 copies of the biography. What destined the volumes for the shredder was a threatened libel suit by Dr. Edward A. Kantor. Biographer C. David Heymann had portrayed the Beverly Hills physician as Hutton's "prematurely gray-haired" Dr. Feelgood, a trusted medical adviser since 1943. In fact, Kantor turned 14 that year, and he did not treat the alcohol-and pill-addicted heiress until...
...court. Actors who got stinging notices on opening night might decide to re-enact their scenes for a judge and jury as a way of proving that their performances were misreported. Critically wounded sopranos might end up singing arias as evidence. Says Henry Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center: "The Mr. Chow case could set a dangerous precedent...