Time Inc. Libel Attorney Retires Due To Total Lack of Work

Once upon a time-the mid-80s-there were two amazing libel cases running concurrently in a New York City courtroom: Westmoreland v. CBS and Sharon v. Time. (And when Renata Adler wrote the book on them, she was threatened with a libel suit as well.) The number of libel cases currently being pursued against Time Inc. and the New York Times Company now, according to the New York Observer? Approximately zero. The paper offers three reasons: the lack of deep, lawsuit-spurring investigative reporting, the ability to make corrections online and the inability of any plaintiff to get a verdict in their favor. (Well, unless you’re a sitting judge, of course.)