Word: recklessly
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...founder of a highly regarded free clinic in Aurora, Ill. (TIME, Jan. 26), who was accused of malpractice by a woman treated for a facial malignancy. Though the patient's suit was tossed out of court, Balthazar and a colleague felt that they had been needlessly harassed. Charging "reckless disregard for the truth" and malicious prosecution, they are seeking only nominal damages of $2 from the woman but $20,600 from her two lawyers. Another Illinois doctor has taken a different stance: he has charged a patient's lawyer with barratry (frivolously stirring up litigation). If convicted...
...wielded a deadly putter throughout the afternoon, snaking home transcontinental putts and ramming in ten-footers with reckless abandon. "Alex just kind of awed the field," said Bartlett. He was the only man to break...
During the team's spring trip to Florida, one of its vehicles of transportation was stopped for speeding in Maryland on the way south, and on the way back home, this same car was arrested for reckless driving in Virginia, but was released from bail after convincing the arresting officer that he had learned his lesson...
During the team's spring trip to Florida, one of its vehicles of transportation was stopped for speeding in Maryland on the way south, and on the way back home, the driver of this same car was arrested for reckless driving in Virginia, but was released from bail after convincing the arresting officer that he had learned his lesson...
...series of cases since 1964, the court has ruled that a public figure cannot collect libel damages without proving that "actual malice" was involved in the publishing of inaccurate and defamatory material. Actual malice, said the court, means publishing with knowledge that a statement is false or with "reckless disregard" of whether it is false or not. The average person, on the other hand, must show only that the publisher of such material was guilty of "some type of fault," as would be found in a negligence case. The point, the court said, is to accommodate the First Amendment...