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High court: Burden of proof
not media’s in libel cases =
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
news media do not have to prove the
truth of defamatory statements that
prompt libel lawsuits, the Supreme
Court ruled Monday.
By a 5-4 vote in a case involving
T he Philadelphia Inquirer, the jus
tices said the Constitution requires
people who sue the news media to
prove that the defamatory statement
about them is false.
Past rulings had established that
public officials and public figures
who sue for libel have the burden of
proving the allegedly libelous
statements were untrue. But until
Monday, state laws varied over who
— a plaintiff or defendant — has the
burden of proof when a private citi
zen sues the news media.
Pennsylvania law had created a
presumption that the defamatory
statement is false, but the Supreme
Court said that presumption violates
free-press rights.
"We hold that, at least where a
newspaper publishes speech of pub
lic concern, a private-figure plaintiff
cannot recover damages without also
showing that the statements at issue
are false,” Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor wrote for the court.
The justices left unanswered
whether non-news media de
fendants sued for libel bv private cit
izens ever may be forced to prove
the allegedly libelous statements are
true.
O'Connor acknowledged that
some people who are hurt by libel
ous statements may not be able to
prove the statements are f alse.
But she said the only alternative
would be to make the news media
pay damages for some truthful
statements that cannot be proved.
Thai alternative “could onlyresuliin
a deterrence of speech whic
Constitution makes free,"O’Conmi
said.
She was joined by Justices
]. Brennan, Thurgood Marsbl
Hans A. Blackmun and Lewis!.
Powell.
Chief Justice Warren E. Bur;
and Justices John Paul Stevens,!
ion R. White and William H. Re
quist dissented. ■
In addition to proving anallesP
edlv libelous statement is false,prs
vate citizens who sue must proved
statement was made negligently.
Public figures and public officii!
who sue f or libel face the moredl
cult task of proving the statemtii
was f alse and was made with“actid
malice" — either with knowiedget
reckless disregard of its falsity.
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Cuban refugees
floating off coast
of Florida rescued
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) —Two
sunburned Cuban refugees who said
thev had floated in small, rubber in
ner tubes for eight days were res
cued Monday 25 miles off the Flor
ida coast after drifting more than
250 miles over open sea.
Just two days earlier the Coast
Guard had picked up three Cuban
men near the Florida Keys under
nearly identical circumstances.
Perry Rivkind, district director of
the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, said, “I’m repeatedly
amazed that these Cubans are so
willing to risk their lives to come
here. You have to be awful desper
ate to try something like this.”
Coast Guard Lt. Tom Tabrah
said, “A trip like that under the con
ditions they’ve described to us could
be considered a miracle.”
The treacherous Gulf Stream cur
rent. which regularly has 8- to 10-
foot waves, carried the men over 250
miles, the Coast Guard said.
I lie men rescued Monday were
picked up by the sport fishing boat
Tempris and then turned over to a
Coast Guard patrol boat.
Thev said thev survived on water
and tomato juice and Tabrah said
they made no mention of food they
carried with them or were able to ob
tain during their trip.
Both were suffering from sun
burn and dehydration and were
taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
On Saturday, the Coast Guard
rescued three Cubans from inner
lubes near Marathon Key. They had
been afloat for several days and were
in fair condition when rescued, Riv-
kind said.
A Cuban exile leader said last
week that newly arriving voting Cu
bans claim lack of economic oppor-
tunity in Cuba has caused wide
spread disaffection among Cuban
vouth.
Cuban refugees who make it out
of their communist-governed home
land generally stand little risk of de
portation if they have relatives here
or qualify for political asylum. How
ever, INS has sent Cubans to such
countries as Spain and Costa Rica if
they first obtained visas to go to
third countries and then tried to slip
into the United States.
Bill would
stop 'legal
tax evasion 1
NEW YORK (AP) - Aram
cans avoid paying billions of do!
lais in sales tax by buying prod
nets In mail from out-of-sutt
companies, hut bills in Congmi
would stop what one officialcali
"legal tax e\asion."
Although mail-order custom
ets are supposed to pay a “uk
tax equal to the sales tax in then
home state, in most rasescatalo!
companies at e not required to
collect it. state tax authoritte
can’t force compliance and »t
goes unpaid.
In l‘)()7, the Supreme Cotin
i tiled that firms only doingbtm
ness thtough the mailcannotte
required to collect state salesut
unless they have a retail oudeui
some other physical presenceint
state.
Yet now, with federal m
tance waning and direct mail sale
booming, states are eager to sur
collecting these taxes that haw
fallen I>etween the cracks.
T he Direct Marketing Assoor
(ion estimates mail order sale
wete S44.5 billion in 1983-tiit
last s ear for which figures an
available.
U.S. Senate battling over use of filibusters
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was once a
place of unfettered free speech, a legislative cockpit
where a senator could rise to his feet and get off his
chest anything that was on his mind.
And he could do it at whatever length he chose, and
virtually whenever he chose to do it.
It was in the Senate, after all, that the word filibuster
was appropriated from the buccaneers and freebooters.
It was meant to describe stemwinding Senate speeches
to stop action on legislation senators opposed.
But bit by bit over the decades the right of unlimited
speech in the Senate has been shaved and trimmed and
pruned.
Now, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., says the threat
is greater than ever that the tree of Senate oratory may
be cut back beyond recognition.
This week, Proxmire is celebrating two decades with
out a missed roll call vote. T hat adds up to 9,
call votes in a row over 20 years. Proxmire also spoil
on the Senate floor every clay the Senate isinsessiK|
He has done so for at least 19 years.
But now the right of daily speeches is undersiegt
Senate Majority Leader Boh Dole, R-Kan., recef
reduced the permitted length of speeches in theSe
ate’s traditional “morning hour” — when senators®
speak on any subject — from 15 minutes to five®
utes.
As of this year. Senate sessions are broadcast by ni
— gavel to gavel — and thev may soon be televised!
well.
If the changes Dole wants are made, Proxmiresit
on busy clays it will be “too bad and tough luck
f reedom to speak on that day.”
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