Word: libelous
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...class valedictorian), Stein is an accomplished scholar of economics, politics and law. He co-founded the Journal of Law and Social Policy during his time in New Haven and has taught mass culture at American University and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Currently, he teaches on libel and ethics at Pepperdine University, where he has worked since...
...LOST. By KORAN TEMPO, a leading Indonesian daily newspaper; a libel lawsuit brought by tycoon Tomy Winata over a February 2003 story reporting rumors that Winata planned to open a casino in Central Sulawesi province despite laws against gambling; in Jakarta. The court ruling was seen by media groups as threatening press freedoms that emerged after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. The newspaper, which was ordered to pay Winata $1 million, said it planned to appeal...
...soft money took its rightful place beside libel, obscenity and false advertising as a form of speech prohibited in the name of the public good. In a surprise decision, the Supreme Court upheld nearly all the major provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)—including a ban on unlimited donations to political parties, known as soft money, and new laws regulating television advertising bought on behalf of candidates by their corporate and union supporters...
...libel suit brought by another writer, who asked [the courts] to ban the book,” Nasrin reflects. “He even asked for my death sentence by hanging. This is the kind of freedom of speech in our country...
...paper in my door box every morning. But I think what will be hardest when my time at The Crimson expires on January 25 is that there won’t be a community of 300 people depending on me to teach the next generation of reporters about libel, rat out that last serial comma from FM or make a clean early morning get-away from Charles River Printing...