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→The suit against Boeing and Margaret Lowenthal
Bussie filed suit against Lowenthal and Boeing alleging that the statements were false and were made with actual malice. Bussie alleged that as such the statements damaged his reputation and held him up to public contempt and ridicule and caused him embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering, and anxiety. Lowenthal claimed that the statements had been made to her while she was attending a cocktail party given by the Louisiana delegation to the National Conference of State Legislators.<ref name=bussiesues/>
Bussie filed suit against Lowenthal and Boeing alleging that the statements were false and were made with actual malice. Bussie alleged that as such the statements damaged his reputation and held him up to public contempt and ridicule and caused him embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering, and anxiety. Lowenthal claimed that the statements had been made to her while she was attending a cocktail party given by the Louisiana delegation to the National Conference of State Legislators.<ref name=bussiesues/>
However, Bussie lost his suit because as a public figure he could not prove that the defendants made their statement with "actual malice" or "a reckless disregard for the truth.<refname=bussiesues/><ref>''New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,'' 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964).</ref>
==Campaigning against right-to-work==
==Campaigning against right-to-work==