Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse its host of 14th Amendment decisions. But tie wants the Justices to leave future cases involving busing, criminal law, obscenity, abortions, libel and voting rights to state courts and legislatures...
Shelledy earned a jail sentence. In what is being called a stunning setback for press freedom, the Supreme Court last week declined to review his contempt citation for refusing to identify the "police expert" in a pretrial deposition for a libel suit filed against him and the paper by Caldero...
...compelled to testify in cases involving crimes they have witnessed, but never extended that requirement to other legal proceedings. If courts in other states embrace the Idaho decision, any aggrieved citizen can force a reporter to disclose his source-or go to jail-simply by suing for libel...
Humes says he arranged the hearing with Jones, the governor's assistant legal counsel, primarily to try to persuade the state of Massachusetts to join Humes in a criminal libel suit against the state of New Jersey. Humes claims he was never served the warrant for his arrest issued by Jones, but a state police officer yesterday gave a different version of the sequence of events leading to Hume's present at-large status. According to the officer, who asked not to be identified, a suspect on whom an "out-of-state" warrant is issued has 90 days in which...
Diaries Editor Michael Davie does not presume to answer that question. His job, which he has performed with unobtrusive competence, was to provide concise background, explanations and deletions in accordance with British libel laws and his own sense of decency. Waugh himself was responsible for the most notable omission, the Oxford entries that refer to his undergraduate adventures in homosexuality. There are no diaries to cover his cuckolding and the collapse of his first marriage in 1929. For his hallucinations in 1954, one must refer back to Gilbert Pinfold...