Word: libelous
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...operation of the libel laws is even more serious. Judges and juries are increasingly inclined to regard any criticism as defamation and to award damages out of all relation to any harm done. The trouble here is not that newspapers do commit libels and do pay heavy damages...
...very happy journey, clouded politically because England was about to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico and personally because a rather odd libel action had been brought against me by Miss Shirley Temple, the child film star. When I returned from the south to Mexico City with an attack of dysentery, I found a letter from my publisher . . . the Lord Chief Justice had taken a severe view of the case and there was some danger that I might be arrested on my return. But by the time I had received my mail I had taken such a distaste to Mexico...
...board wanted to broaden the range of topics and views covered by the editorial page, Olin Browder, professor of law and chairman of the board, said last night. Also, Browder charged, had approached "the limits of libel the code of ethics under which a newspaper should operate...
...Peace seemed likely to break out between the Chrysler Corp. and Proxy Battler Sol A. Dann, 58, the feisty Detroit lawyer who, as a stockholder (5,100 shares), has been harrying management for three years. In return for indefinite postponement of Chrysler's $30 million libel suit against him, Dann proposes to abandon his own suits against a clutch of former Chrysler executives and suppliers for alleged collusion to overcharge the company on parts...
...campuses, 315 new political groups formed: 169 conservative, 146 liberal. This year the pace is even faster. Yet the full measure of this new taste for the world's affairs cannot be taken by counting membership lists. For many students, any sort of label seems a libel. At the very source of campus political vigor is a weariness of all formula ideology as too often doctrinaire and compromised...