Word: trials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accused Murderer Ted Bundy goes on trial in Miami...
...after he resigned in 1971 as Secretary of the Treasury. Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be persuaded to accept all the blame for Watergate. Republican enemies of Connally point to a tape played during his 1975 trial on charges of accepting money from milk producers in return for higher price supports. Though hard to decipher, it seemed to record Connally and Nixon discussing a large contribution from oilmen. But the tape was virtually unintelligible and little was made of it at the time. Connally has denied that...
...this power unfairly. Berkey was awarded treble damages of $87 million. Now, in an equally stunning reversal, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out all but $990,000 of the 1978 award; it dismissed $45.8 million of the damages outright and said that only a new trial could determine if Kodak must pay the rest of the award...
...libel suit. These "public figures" must show "actual malice"; in other words, that a defendant consciously lied or was recklessly indifferent to the accuracy of what he published. Malice is hard to prove. Judges usually dismiss libel suits brought by public figures before they even get to trial...
Undaunted by the decision and the trial for libel that he now faces, Proxmire vowed that he will continue to issue the Golden Fleece Award. But many press lawyers are concerned that the court's actions will result in more libel cases, and that more of them will survive summary judgment and go to a jury for a full trial. That is when legal fees soar...