Moldea v. New York Times, Part 7 of 19

At war with the New York Times

            On August 23, 1990, Roger Simmons filed a $10 million libel suit—Moldea v. New York Times—in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  In our complaint, Simmons charged that the September 3, 1989, review, written by Times sportswriter Gerald Eskenazi, was "intended to protect the NFL by personally attacking Moldea, discrediting …