What! What! Fear of government on the OM list??!?!?! That's as nutty as
"selling" and canceling over and over and over again on eBay. You're
starting to sound like those aging revolutionaries who wrote the US
Constitution, or Alan Keyes....
Nicholas Smoliga
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pendley [SMTP:jpendley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:49 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Giles
>
> I don't know if it's true, but Law and Order once ran a trailer paragraph
> after one of its episodes saying that the Supreme Court found that proof
> of innocence is not grounds for
> releasing a falsely imprisoned person. I wonder if they would have run
> that on national TV if it weren't true. They might have gotten sued for
> slander by the Justices! To me,
> this is a lot scarier than the Liddy situation.
> John
>
> Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
> > I'm no lawyer, but... here, condensed from Editor & Publisher magazine
> (1-30-00) is a report that
> > the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by G. Gordon Liddy (talk-show
> host & Watergate vet)
> > to quash a lawsuit filed by a lady who was suing Liddy for comments he
> made.
> >
> > In this case the court rejected Liddy's contention that the woman be
> considered a "public figure" who would then be responsible proving the
> comments intended "actual malice".
> >
> > She needs only to prove Liddy's statements were negligent, untrue or
> defamatory.
> >
> > (Emphasis mine. Scary, huh... )
> >
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