"In a bittersweet victory, a husband-and-wife lawyer team have won a $9 million libel award against a former South Carolina television news director. That was the sweet part.
The bitter end for the plaintiffs came when the defense prevailed with a directed verdict acquitting the station that employed the news director, all but eliminating the couple's chances of collecting any of the money from the imprisoned defendant," The National Law Journal reports here. Apparently, news director Don Feldman engaged in some rather extreme behavior . . . .