Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also claimed that the new Confidential magazine is a literary product quite different from the older version, which was involved in a suit for libel. "We're a public service and public conscience magazine now," Steirman said...
...other major decisions* handed down on the final day of its term, the Supreme Court nailed up fences protecting 1) federal officials, and 2) broadcasting stations from important types of libel suits...
...effective administration of policies." So saying, the Court extended to all policymaking federal officials a rule that it had applied to Cabinet officers back in 1896: they have "absolute privilege" in making statements on "matters committed by law to [their] control or supervision," meaning that they are immune from libel suits even if a statement is malicious and false...
...independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing what federal law said it had to do, it was not liable under the state's libel laws...
...state our opinions in any way we like," said Justice Cyril Salmon, "diffidently, decorously, politely and discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired...