Word: opinionizing
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...than a decade ago, when Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert sued CBS, 60 Minutes Producer Barry Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace for a 1973 broadcast questioning the Colonel's claim that he had been drummed out of the Army for reporting war crimes to his superiors. In a 43-page opinion, Judge Irving R. Kaufman, a member of the three-judge panel, ruled that Herbert had no grounds to take his case to trial. The CBS story, Kaufman wrote, was essentially accurate. To go to trial over some minor unresolved issues would be, the judge wrote, a "classic case...
...significance of the opinion may be far reaching, according to some First Amendment experts, if it encourages judges to dismiss more libel cases before they turn into long and expensive trials. Since few libel cases ultimately result in large damage awards, it is the cost of trying them, not paying damages, that the press fears and regards as a threat to its free dom. Judge Kaufman's ruling, says Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment expert, could "go a long way toward relieving the burden that the recent explosion of libel litigation has brought about...
...looks like they've pulled it off," said one Western ambassador in Madrid as a wide smile spread across his face. There were similar signs of relief around Europe and in Washington last week after Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez achieved a remarkable turnaround in public opinion and won a referendum that will keep Spain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Even if the contras were willing to persist in a guerrilla war, there is doubt that U.S. opinion would persist in backing them. The current wrangle over aid to the contras is all too typical of what happens when the American political system tries to cope with a controversial foreign entanglement that does not promise clear or early results...
...indicated Ross, the Comptroller was simply a numbers cruncher, "a computator of statutory formulas." Justice William Rehnquist seemed skeptical. Harking back to his days as a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration, he got a laugh from the courtroom by recalling that "if the Administration wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Attorney General. If Congress wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Comptroller General...