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