From the second one:
The hate charges were dropped, and Jefferson County paid the Quigleys $75,000 after prosecutors concluded Dee Quigley's remarks to a friend were only in jest.
The only difference between that sentence and the nearly identical one in the first article is the addition of the phrase "prosecutors concluded Dee Quigley's remarks to a friend were only in jest". That may be fine from a criminal standpoint, but the Federal lawsuit against the ADL only involved the question of whether the Quigley's were defamed when they were publicly labeled anti-Semitic by a director of the ADL.
Whether said in jest or in seriousness, the Quigley's comments about using "Nazi scare tactics, including tossing lampshades and soap on their lawn and putting pictures of Holocaust ovens on their house", are beyond any doubt, anti-Semitic.
The only thing that saved the Quigley's is that the ADL's evidence was inadmissible in court. In other words, the Quigley's ARE anti-Semitic and skated on a technicality.
--Boot Hill