Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting Smith a lawyer, Kennedy acted like any concerned uncle. But in other ways his actions were reckless and irresponsible. It was Kennedy who roused his son and nephew from a sound sleep on Good Friday night to ask, according to the Senator's own deposition, "if they wanted to have a couple of beers." The three men then set out for Au Bar, Palm Beach's hottest club, thus setting in motion the chain of events that ended with the alleged rape. There they met the 29-year-old woman who later accused Smith, and Michele Cassone...
...story was done by Hollywood's megahot scriptwriter Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge), who was paid a record $3 million for his work. It casts Douglas as a cop with a reckless past who falls in love with a bisexual novelist, one of three women suspected of the ice-pick killing of an aging rock star. Each of the women, a lesbian, a bisexual and a heterosexual, has a motive for the crime...
Judge Sidney Shapiro apparently agreed with them. Late last week, after the prosecution rested its case and before the defense team began summoning witnesses, Shapiro called a halt to the proceedings. "There is insufficient evidence that Mr. Rodriguez acted in a reckless manner," he said. Not guilty...
...defamatory. You have to prove you've been harmed. These constraints will take care of most of the nightmare scenarios journalists worry about, such as being sued for "cleaning up" quotes. Above all, if X is a public figure, you have to prove the misquote was committed with "reckless disregard for the truth." (The lawyers call this "actual malice" -- the "actual" being a lawyer's way of indicating that it doesn't actually mean malice...
...America all professionals except journalists live in fear of lawsuits. Journalists are rightly alarmed that the mere accusation of fake quotes could land a journalist in a costly lawsuit, and the Supreme Court should protect us against that. But if quotes are made up, this alone surely displays reckless disregard for the truth. The claim of Malcolm and her defenders that the Constitution should protect even purposely made-up quotes, as long as the author thinks they reflect the subject's views, is an embarrassment...