ZGram - April 26, 2003 - "ADL to fork over almost 10 million"

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April 26, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

It's a weekend - let me take a break.  Here is a tiny ray of hope. 

Isn't it nice to know that the ADL, that tax-supported hate-mongering outfit,
had had to pocket another legal defeat? 

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Libel award against Anti-Defamation League upheld

The Associated Press  Wednesday, April 23, 2003

DENVER--A $9.75 million libel award against the Anti-Defamation
League for publicly calling an Evergreen, Colo., couple anti-Semitic
was upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court.

William and Dorothy Quigley won the judgment in April 2000 after
the ADL's remarks at a news conference. The incident arose out
of a dispute between the Quigleys and neighbors Mitchell and
Candice Aronson, who are Jewish.

The original judgment was $10.5 million, but a judge reduced that to
$9.75 million in 2001 because the Quigleys had won a separate but
related judgment against the Aronsons over wiretapping violations.

The ADL appealed the libel judgment, but the 10th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals upheld the smaller award. ADL regional director
Bruce DeBoskey declined to comment.

The appeals court overturned the jury's finding that the ADL had
invaded the Quigleys' privacy, saying the jury instructions were faulty.
That decision had no effect on the libel award.

The dispute dates to 1994. The Aronsons claimed the Quigleys
made anti- Semitic remarks in phone conversations that the
Aronsons taped.