Word: paragraphs
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...that legalese, the jury rendered its decision that TIME had not libeled General Ariel Sharon in a paragraph in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. After giving that verdict, however, Zug read a statement on behalf of the jury. It said that "certain TIME employees, particularly Correspondent David Halevy, acted negligently and carelessly in reporting and verifying the information which ultimately found its way into the published paragraph of interest in this case...
...victory was that, in an unusual procedure, Federal Judge Abraham Sofaer had asked the jury to disclose its partial findings step by step instead of deciding all elements of the case before announcing a verdict. On their third day of deliberations, the jurors said that they interpreted the disputed paragraph, which reported on discussions Sharon had held with Lebanese Christian Phalangists before the massacre, as having a defamatory meaning. Two days later they announced their conclusion that the contested passage was false. In deciding last week for TIME on "actual malice," the third and most complex point, the jurors determined...
...abroad. Sharon has never made any secret of his desire to become Israel's Prime Minister; the morning after the trial ended, he said on NBC-TV's Today Show that "I believe that one day I'll try to do that." By persuading the jury that the paragraph was false, Sharon has helped his cause, even though he lost the case...
...What has been proved by now is that TIME magazine lied," said Sharon after the jury announced on Friday that it found the disputed paragraph false. He called the decision "a clear moral victory." But Cave told reporters that TIME still believed its story to be substantially true. "No one has come forward and said that story was false, but one," he said. "We were forbidden to bring in our own witnesses in this case. We were forbidden access to the testimony that we were confident, confident, would prove that what that paragraph said was correct." After deciding the falsity...
...York had "exaggerated or distorted" the information Halevy received to the point that they were aware that it was "probably untrue." Finally, the jurors could find actual malice if they believed that TIME's journalists had "systematically disregarded" substantial evidence that caused them to be aware that the paragraph was probably untrue. Sofaer reminded the jury to consider TIME's claim that its employees had checked the passage carefully and found no contradiction between its conclusion and the Kahan commission report. The jurors were also to take into account testimony by Halevy's TIME colleagues that they regarded...