The Nation - News from Oct. 27, 1985
The conservative Liberty Lobby was found guilty of libel in an article saying that William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the conservative National Review, had a “close working relationship” with American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell. A federal jury in Washington awarded National Review $1 in damages and $1,000 in punitive damages. The jury found that the lobby’s weekly newspaper, Spotlight, did not libel the Review when it called commentary printed in the magazine a “muddled smear” on the lobby’s founder, William Carto.
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