Word: pring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 on the novel Touching...
...Harvard Divinity School staff member will leave for the Nicaraguan-Honduran border next month as part of a mission hoping to pring peace to the troubled region...
Maybe so, but some libel experts are uneasy. Taken together with the $14 million award (reduced from $26 million last week) against Penthouse magazine for libeling Kimerli Pring, a former Miss Wyoming, the Enquirer verdict might signal a trend in multimillion-dollar verdicts that could put publications out of business, a prospect that would unquestionably inhibit journalists. Says First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams: "The fact that such a large judgment has been returned in such a highly publicized case may well be an inducement to more plaintiffs to bring more lawsuits seeking more money." As for the Enquirer, it vows...
...dollar losers include the Kerr-McGee energy conglomerate, for allowing Employee Karen Silkwood to be contaminated with plutonium; Squibb, for marketing an inadequately tested pregnancy-detection drug (Gestest) that apparently caused birth defects; and, most recently, Penthouse magazine, for a 1979 article that libeled a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring. The jury awarded her $26.5 million last month, a record if it survives court challenges by the magazine. Next month in Salt Lake City, Spence shoots for his biggest haul yet-$110 million-when he squares off against Utah officials on behalf of the widow and children...
...there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described how a baton-twirling Miss Wyoming used her sexual prowess to try to win the Miss America Pageant...