For example, jokes about... Terry Rakolta an activist who spearheaded a boycott of the show Married With Children were fair comments... within the confines of her public conduct and protected by Ms. Rakolta's status as a "limited public figure".
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The decision held that, while news organizations were protected from liability when printing allegations about public officials under the Supreme Court's New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision (1964), they may still be liable to public figures if the information they disseminate is recklessly gathered and unchecked.
As editor of Al Quds Al Arabi, Abdel Bari Atwan has become a well-known Arab public figure, and is a regular guest on Dateline London on BBC World, Sky News, Al Jazeera English and CNN World, as well as on several Arabic-language networks.
Paykel's mother did not renew her contract because, according to Paykel, "Shirley Temple was all the rage and my mother was terrified I might become a public figure like her".
Afërdita Dreshaj (born July 19, 1986) is an Albanian public figure best known for being crowned Miss Universe Kosovo 2011 and representing the Republic of Kosovo in Miss Universe 2011.
This event always draws in many celebrity and public figure attendees, including Michael Ignatieff, Ben Mulroney, Louis Pitre and more.
Further the building that had served as a seminary for decades became home to the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, an institution named in part after Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a public figure controversial primarily among collectivist academics.
He became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, which was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, during which he committed perjury regarding his affair with then White House Intern Monica Lewinsky.
Lowenstein was a very public figure in his service of the games business - along with Patricia Vance, ESRB head and Hal Halpin, IEMA boss - and as such had both his supporters and detractors in the industry and media.
She and her husband had one daughter and one son, Richard A. Morse, who also became a musician and prominent public figure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Foot in Mouth Award, an award by the British Plain English Campaign for "a baffling comment by a public figure"
On 27 September 1829, Parrot, a pioneer of scientific mountaineering, whilst professor of physics of the University of Dorpat, reached the summit of Mount Ararat (5,137 m) with Khachatur Abovian (the Armenian writer and national public figure) and three other students.
Despite retiring, Chumpitaz continued being a public figure, and, on December 3, 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to four years of suspended sentence (probation), for allegedly accepting US$30,000 from presidential advisor and right-hand man Vladimiro Montesinos, supposedly after joining former minister Juan Carlos Hurtado in latter's quest to become mayor of Lima in 1998, during Alberto Fujimori's presidency.
When Leung's second Secretary for Development, Paul Chan, became embroiled in a property and credibility scandal (as had the first, Mak Chai-kwong), Cheng was the first - and to date is the only - public figure to offer support.
Eventually, in the 1870s, Monk settled in Ottawa, where he would become something of a public figure.
James V. Crosby (born 1952), former U.S. public figure, jailed for corruption
Rassmann reappeared and became a public figure just before the 2004 Iowa caucus.
President Lyndon B. Johnson – Johnson is mentioned in a frequently referenced scene and quote from the film Forrest Gump, in which a Vietnam War protestor assaults a woman and then apologizes with the line "Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson!" The quote is used to lampoon Johnson himself, or more usually any individual that blames a public figure or crisis for a mistake or poor judgment.
Khachatur Abovian (1809–1848), Armenian writer and national public figure who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was presumed dead
Following the return of Levon Ter-Petrossian to active politics in 2007, Zourabian resigned from the International Crisis Group and continued his career as a public figure supporting Ter-Petrossian’s candidacy during the presidential elections of 2008.
In a poll conducted by M&R in 2009, Hallesleven was the second most popular public figure in the country, only behind Aminta Granera, the head of the National Police.
Nuala O'Loan (born 1951), noted public figure in Northern Ireland
Williamson, the secretary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and a well-known public figure, was later convicted of contempt of court by Pennsylvania District Court judge John K. Kane and served a sentence between July 27 and November 3, 1855, in Moyamensing Prison.
He is a leading public figure, a TV and radio commentator and a columnist in Expresso and in the surf media.
It would notably become the first magazine to publish a photo of Alan Gelfand before he became a famous public figure, the South Florida skater associated with the creation of the Ollie (skateboarding trick).
Félix joined Telemundo Chicago in 2001 as a fill in reporter and anchor for Milenka Peña, a veteran journalist and public figure.