Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London's High Court contained all the elements necessary for a topping midsummer titillation. It included charges of illicit sex, payoffs, skulduggery in high political places and a celebrity plaintiff. Small wonder, then, that hardly a seat was vacant during the 14 days of testimony and summation in the libel suit brought against the Star, a lurid London tabloid, by best-selling Novelist (First Among Equals, Kane and Abel) and former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jeffrey Archer. The charge: that the Star falsely claimed that Archer had purchased the services of a London prostitute. Last week the jury of eight...
...time, Bork stated that the First Amendment protects only "speech that is explicitly political" and extends no guarantees to literary or scientific creation. On the D.C. federal appeals bench, however, he has written some opinions strongly upholding free-speech rights. He supported the press in a much cited 1984 libel suit against Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, proposing that "those who place themselves in a political arena must accept a degree of derogation that others need not." Says Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "There hasn't been an opinion more favorable to the press in a decade...
Perhaps the most instructive information that has emerged recently, notes Nashville Tennessean Editor John Seigenthaler, is that "libel suits can be brought on because plaintiffs are infuriated by the cavalier treatment they get from the newspaper staff." What many libel plaintiffs really seek is an apology, a means of reply, or even just a respectful hearing -- which more of the press is grudgingly beginning to offer...
...potentially quicker and better way to achieve all that is arbitration, now being tested in a Libel Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Iowa, run by three professors, including Gilbert Cranberg, a former editorial- page editor of the Des Moines Register. In some 30 cases to be handled over the next two years, both sides must waive the right to file suit. In exchange there are supervised negotiating sessions, a possible factual hearing on whether a statement was false and damaging -- without considering whether the error met the legal "malice" standard -- and ultimately arbitration. Remedies imposed against a media...
Press: After a flurry of cases, the number of libel suits drops off, perhaps because so often no one really comes out a winner. Religion: Some powerful critics want to build more flexibility into the wall of strict church-state separation. Cinema: Turn-on porn films wind up in the bedroom; censors still want to turn them...