 Denver, Colorado, April 29, 2003
[Images added by this
website]Libel
award against Anti-Defamation League
upheld By The Associated
Press A $9.75 MILLION libel award
against the Anti-Defamation
League for publicly
calling an Evergreen 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. Copyright 2003 The
Denver Post. All rights reserved. 
Couple
win $10.5 million in lawsuit-
Judge Slams ADL for
Hurting Couple Tarred As 'Anti-Semites'
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Denver
Post, April 2000: Libel Victory: ADL ordered to
pay Denver couple $10.5m. Charges of bigotry
backfire
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Couple
win $10.5 million in lawsuit
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