Word: libelous
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...allow Wu Fang to divorce her husband. Powerful and corrupt, these officials from Fenghuo village in northwestern Shaanxi province have consistently blocked all attempts by Wu Fang to bring them to justice. When a Chinese newspaper wrote a story sympathetic to her case in 1996, the village sued for libel--and won last June in a local court. "Everywhere in China there are outside factors that interfere with legal cases," says Wang Weiguo, professor of political science and law at China University in Beijing, who represented the newspaper in the case...
Wilde, against the advice of his friends and lawyers, including George Bernard Shaw, pursues a case of criminal libel against Queensbury for the sake of Bosie, who sees the trial as a chance to get back at his mother. Bosie's stage presence is nearly perfect; with the walk of a public school boy and slight hints at effeminacy, Snyder successfully relates Bosie's demanding and selfish desire for Wilde's complete devotion...
...play moves through the trials, with Wilde's libel suit ending without resolution, prompting the Queen to bring up charges of "gross indecency" to court, a result of the evidence provided in Wilde's first trial. Between the first and second trial, we flash forward to a scene between a narrator (Dan Rosenthal '02) and Marvin Taylor (Liz Janiak '03), a New York University professor. Taylor makes it easy to laugh at the implications of Wilde's trials, especially given the pretentious delivery that is reminiscent of a bad English lecture. Yet the time warp does not seem...
...just had breakfast," recalls Klein. One of the youngest people ever made partner (at age 31) at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Boies became famous for successfully defending IBM against a massive antitrust suit. In another high-profile case, in the early 1980s, he defended CBS against General William Westmoreland's libel suit. Boies was so impressive that reporters took to humming the theme from Jaws whenever he rose to cross-examine a witness. Westmoreland, who dropped his claim, told Vanity Fair that he wouldn't have given up if he'd "had one [lawyer] like Boies." A few days before Thanksgiving...
...Sharon lost a libel suit against TIME for its story on his role in the incident, but the federal jury in Manhattan did fault Time for careless and negligent reporting and the magazine retracted a key part of its story...