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15 Media L. Notes 1 (1987-1988)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts15 and id is 1 raw text is: media law notes Vol. 15, No. 1 AEJMC Law Division Fall 1987 Newsletter Justice May Speak At '88 Convention Law Division officers are proposing four mini-plenaries for the 1988 AEJMC convention in Portland, including a session featuring a U.S. Supreme Court justice. One of the mini-plenaries that will be proposed at the mid-winter meeting is titled A Supreme Court Justice's Look Ahead to 1991. (See Mini-Plenary, page 15) Libel The Iowa Libel Research Project has announced the start of the Libel Dispute Resolution Program, intended to provide a voluntary alternative to litigation that may yield a more efficient and satisfactory resolution of libel suits outside the court. The Iowa Libel Research Project has a major grant from the John and Mary Markel Foundation of New York to implement and evaluate the Libel Dispute Resolution Program. The program, over the next few years, will attempt to resolve media libel disputes, drawn on a nationwide bases, through the use of nonjudicial processes. The American Arbitration Association will administer the disputes and will provide a special group of neutrals for the program. The research project developed the alternative process based on the findings of a Editorial Pages Amply Protected There was good news and bad news for editorial writers, cartoonists and columnists at a recent seminar on Libel on the Editorial Pages. The good news, libel scholar David A. Anderson told participants in the two-day session, is that, Never before in American history has the editorial page enjoyed as much protection from libel as it enjoys today. The bad news, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad countered, is that if a recent ruling upholding a jury finding that a satirical graphic caused emotional distress is allowed to stand, editorial cartoonists might as well find other lines of work. The seminar, sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute at the William and Mary law school, consisted of three sessions : Liability for Editorials, Liability for Editorial Cartoonists, and Liability for Letters to the Editor and Syndicated Columnists. It was attended by approximately 90 professional journalists, journalism professors (See Libel, page 13) three-year detailed empirical study of the libel litigation system that drew upon a broad range of sources, including libel cases decided between 1974 and 1984 and interviews with parties and attorneys involved in libel litigation. The research suggests that an alternative process would be consistent with the interests of a majority of plaintiffs and defendants in libel suits. Such a process had been developed by the Libel Research Project, under which either a potential plaintiff or defendant in a libel suit may contact the project for a possible resolution. The project would then determine the willingness of both parties to submit the controversy to the resolution program. If both (See Libel Program, page 15) Resolution Program Is Planned

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