Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had U. S. publishers congratulated themselves on the outcome of the Louisiana newspaper tax suit before the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. fortnight ago than there began in Washington, Pa. a criminal libel trial which most U. S. newspaper owners looked upon as another major threat to their liberties...
...first State Supreme Court decision in U. S. history on a novel principle of libel law was studied last week by editors of the Scripps League of Newspapers in a report prepared by the League's general counsel, Samuel Simpson Hahn of Los Angeles...
...interview the murdered man's widow. Mrs. Akin hotly denied the tale, declared that her husband would never have confided in Israel because he knew Israel was a thief and hated him. When he read that statement in the News-Telegram, Jeweler Israel sued the paper for libel, asking $100,000 damages...
Mightily pleased with the precedent thus established, Counsel Hahn nonetheless cautioned Scripps editors "that in order to avail one's self of the right of SELF DEFENSE in libel, the person rebutting an assailant should bear in mind that his retort MUST BE A NECESSARY PART OF HIS DEFENSE, FAIRLY ARISING OUT OF THE CHARGES HE IS ANSWERING. In other words common sense governs the situation. For instance, if an assailant were to throw a small book at you, you would not be legally justified in firing a gun in self defense of your person. . . . So it is with...
...newspaper which lost an extraordinary libel case last week was the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which by mistake had omitted "Ga." in the Savannah, Ga. date line on a crime story involving one Mrs. J. C. Johnson. Claiming that her friends who read the story thought she was the accused woman, a Mrs. J. C. Johnson of Savannah, Tenn. (pop. 1,129) sued for libel, last week was awarded...