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...Libel plaintiff lawyers like Attorney Gerry Spence counter that the victims of a writer's vendetta or recklessness are entitled to recompense. "We must be free to fictionalize, but we can't hurt people with the exercise of our freedom," says Spence. Six years ago he represented a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring, in a suit against Penthouse, which ran a tale about the sexual feats of a fictional Miss Wyoming. Though an appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision...
Every weeknight at 8:58 p.m., most of the CBS affiliate television stations air 60-second speeches about the Constitution by prominent Americans, ranging from former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill to Linda Brown Smith, the plaintiff in "Brown vs. Board of Education...
Albert P. Zabin and Marcia J. Allar, attorneysfor the plaintiff, argued that Rosoff did not doenough to correctly diagnose her. Allar said thatRosoff based his diagnosis solely on feeling thepatient's breast...
...evidence is presented to reconstruct what happened outside the court and who was in the wrong. The deciding factor in the textbook case, however, was not a comparison of textbook content and a system of belief like Christianity or creationism, but a judgment of the authenticity of whatever the plaintiff chose to present. That is, the evidence was the proceeding itself...
...something to put this thing down," said a Robertson aide earlier this month. "It's getting out of hand." The suits dramatize Robertson's intention to fight any hint that he sought to evade combat duty in Korea. In libel cases, however, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. It is likely to be difficult for Robertson to prove that his father did not use senatorial influence to protect him from combat. But if he is hoping that the prospect of an expensive, time-consuming suit will force a retraction from McCloskey, Robertson has underestimated his old shipmate. "Unfortunately...