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...lower Manhattan. As dozens of reporters and spectators listened intently, the clerk asked Jury Foreman Richard Zug, an IBM computer specialist, if the panel had come to a decision. "We have," replied Zug. Reading carefully from the verdict form, Zug announced, "On actual malice: to the question, Has the plaintiff proved by clear and convincing evidence that a person or persons at Time Inc. knew that the defamatory statement was false or had serious doubts to its truth?, we find the answer...
...jury decided against TIME on "actual malice," it would then hear testimony on Sharon's reputation to determine any assessment of damages. In most libel cases, the lawyers for both sides present evidence on the plaintiff's reputation before the jury begins its overall deliberations. But after Sharon had already presented character witnesses on his own behalf, Judge Sofaer decided to split the trial; he ruled that introduction of evidence detrimental to Sharon's reputation could unfairly influence the jury on the first three issues. For Sharon to win the case, he will have to show that his reputation...
...plaintiff's case is too much," Barr concluded. "It reaches out beyond sense and reason." Sharon brought this lawsuit, Barr charged, because "he had to fight somebody. He couldn't sue the commission. It already had gone out of business. He picked out this one paragraph and said, 'This is the way to attack the Kahan commission . . . and that's the way I'm going to wash my hands clean of this terrible, terrible mess...
...mistake," he added, "He is still paying the price for it. He knows it has left scars on the reputation of a great soldier." Sharon could not have been guilty of encouraging the massacre, Gould argued, because he knew records were being kept of the meetings. Said the plaintiff's attorney: "He may be fat, but he ain't crazy...
...suit were filed in India, the judgment would be in the next century," said Nani Palkhivala, one of India's most respected attorneys. More important, the U.S. offers more generous legal grounds on which to base a case. Lawyers can file a suit for negligence, under which a plaintiff would have to prove carelessness on the part of Union Carbide. But more appealing is the doctrine of strict liability, under which negligence need not be proved. Said Belli: "It doesn't matter that you didn't intend to bring harm. What matters is that it happened...