Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John R. Lakian, Westwood millionaire and 1982 GOP gubernatorial candidate, to claim anything other than being blown out of the water after his spurious $50 million libel suit against The Boston Globe is utterly ridiculous...
...they can call our finding libel," said Laurence W. Cranton of Needham...
...consider the comments of libel law experts...
...This was a defendant's verdict. The libel claim did not prevail"--Victor A. Kovner, chairman of the New York City bar association's communications law committee...
...wiretaps was not clear at the time. In a case involving two letters to the President that were brutally critical of a candidate for U.S. Attorney in North Carolina, the court held unanimously that the Constitution's guarantee of the right to "petition the Government" does not block a libel suit when such petitions are maliciously defamatory. Finally, a 6 to 2 majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice Byron White...