Editing James Randi (section)

===Uri Geller===
Randi met magician [[Uri Geller]] in the early 1970s, and found Geller to be "Very charming. Likable, beautiful, affectionate, genuine, forward-going, handsome—everything!"<ref name="scientific skeptic1"/> But Randi viewed Geller as a con-man, and began a long effort to expose him as a fraud.<ref name="scientific skeptic1"/> According to Randi, Geller tried to sue him several times, accusing him of libel. Geller never won, save for a ruling in a Japanese court that ordered Randi to pay Geller one-third of one per cent of what Geller had requested. This ruling was cancelled, and the matter dropped, when Geller decided to concentrate on another legal matter.<ref name="Randiwoo" /><ref name="r8P1f">{{cite web |url=http://www.uri-geller.com/psir.htm |title=An End to the ''Uri Geller vs. Randi & CSICOP'' Litigations? |last=Truzzi |first=Marcello |author-link=Marcello Truzzi |publisher=UriGeller.com |access-date=October 9, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208201045/http://www.uri-geller.com/psir.htm |archive-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref>

{{wikisource|Geller v. Randi}}
In May 1991, Geller sued Randi and CSICOP for $15&nbsp;million on a charge of slander, after Randi told the ''[[The New York Times International Edition|International Herald Tribune]]'' that Geller had "tricked even reputable scientists" with stunts that "are the kind that used to be on the back of cereal boxes", referring to the old [[spoon-bending]] trick. The court dismissed the case and Geller had to settle at a cost to him of $120,000, after Randi produced a cereal box which bore instructions on how to do the spoon-bending trick. Geller's lawyer Don Katz was disbarred mid-way into this action and Geller ended up suing him. After failing to pay by the deadline imposed by the court, Geller was sanctioned an additional $20,000.<ref name="lgKNL">{{Cite book|title=Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?|last=Margolis|first=Jonathan|publisher=Orion Books|year=1999|isbn=978-1566490252|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/urigellermagicia0000marg}}</ref><ref name="xAZLD">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/08/29/a-case-of-mind-over-matter/a9dd790d-6e7c-4cff-b232-19f17b7df272/|title=A Case of Mind Over Matter|last=Thompson|first=Tracy|date=August 29, 1991|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005051241/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/08/29/a-case-of-mind-over-matter/a9dd790d-6e7c-4cff-b232-19f17b7df272/|archive-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref><ref name="MrUUs">{{Cite web|url=http://urigellerdoit.blogspot.ca/|title=How does Uri Geller do it?|last=Cacho|first=Flavio|date=August 1, 2008|website=Blogger|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929232152/http://urigellerdoit.blogspot.ca/|archive-date=September 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="csicop-suitdismissed">{{cite web|url=http://www.csicop.org/articles/uri_dis.html|title=Uri Geller Libel Suit Dismissed |date=August 1994 |website=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |publisher=Center for Inquiry|location=Amherst, NY|archive-url=https://archive.today/20061205032721/http://www.csicop.org/articles/uri_dis.html|archive-date=December 5, 2006 |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="skepfiles-suitdismssed">{{cite web|url=http://www.skepticfiles.org/skeptic/randi032.htm|title=Lawsuit Against CSICOP Dismissed|website=The Skeptic Tank|publisher=Fredric L. Rice |location=San Clementa, CA |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007104245/http://www.skepticfiles.org/skeptic/randi032.htm|archive-date=October 7, 2007}}</ref>
Geller sued both Randi and [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|CSICOP]] in the 1980s.<ref name="Kur2010">{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Paul|title=Exuberant Skepticism|date=2010|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1615929702|page=193|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFsEut6lA94C&dq=Geller+sued+both+Randi+and+CSICOP&pg=PA193|access-date=March 21, 2023|archive-date=April 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429183327/https://books.google.com/books?id=HFsEut6lA94C&dq=Geller+sued+both+Randi+and+CSICOP&pg=PA193|url-status=live}}</ref> CSICOP argued that the organization was not responsible for Randi's statements. The court agreed that including CSICOP was frivolous and dropped them from the action, leaving Randi to face the action alone, along with the legal costs. Geller was ordered to pay substantial damages, but only to CSICOP.<ref name="Kur2010" /> <!--The matter was subsequently settled out of court, and the details of the settlement have been kept confidential. The settlement also included an agreement that Geller would not pursue Randi for the award in the Japanese case or other outstanding cases.{{Cn|date=July 2020}}
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