False Light Cases
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Case #1
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| Case #2 Joey Giardello boxed professionally for nearly 20 years. He won 117 of his 133 bouts and held the middleweight championship from 1963 to 1965. Giardello, now 71, defeated middleweight Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in 1964. In the movie "Hurricane," Carter, played by Denzel Washington is shown beating a character named "Joey Giardello" to a pulp only to lose a racially tinged decision that leaves a battered and bloody Giardello the undeserving champion. In reality, Giardello says he only suffered a small cut in the middle rounds and won a clear decision over a listless Carter. Boxing historian Wallace Matthews says that several writers who were at ringside back up Giardello's claim, though others believe Carter won. Giardello's lawyer has documentation that lawyers who reviewed the script questioned whether Giardello's name should have been used. Giardello wanted monetary damages, a statement on the DVD that Giardello was a great fighter and the inclusion of actual footage from the fight so that viewers could judge for themselves who really won the actual fight. Does Giardello have a case? Why/why not? |
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| Case #3 In the film "Titanic," William Murdoch, an officer on the ship, was depicted as shooting panicked passengers who were climbing into a lifeboat. He was later shown killing himself. According to testimony by those who saw the real Titanic sink, the real Murdoch died a hero. He gave his life jacket to a passenger and was washed overboard while trying to deploy a lifeboat. The only Murdoch's left are one or two old cousins (the Titanic sunk in 1912). Do they have a case? Why/why not? |
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| (These cases are real and taken from the January 8th, 2002 edition of USA Today) | |