In Vienna, the notably progressive Judge Sieber ("the Judge Lindsey of Austria") ruled sternly last week upon a libel action brought by a young woman against a man who admitted boasting of his intimacy with her.
Judge Sieber delivered his formal opinion as follows: "No one would consider a statement libelous which merely affirmed that a man had overstepped the old-fashioned so-called proprieties. Now the spirit of the times affirms absolutely the equality of men and women. One is therefore obliged to take the view that it is not libelous to affirm...
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