Anti-Hate Group Appeals Ruling
Lawyers for the Anti-Defamation League in Denver are appealing a $10.5-million judgment against the organization for defaming a couple the ADL publicly accused of being anti-Semitic. On April 28, a U.S. District Court jury decided the organization had gone too far in accusing an Evergreen, Colo., couple of anti-Semitism. The main evidence in the case turned out to be illegally recorded telephone conversations. Saul F. Rosenthal, director of ADL’s Mountain States region, held a news conference accusing William and Dorothy Quigley of anti-Semitism. He based his remarks on the taped conversations. But the jury concluded those statements at the news conference--and on the radio--were defamatory and “not substantially true.”
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