defamatory

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Cizeron, who is competing in next month's Milan-Cortina Winter Games with a new partner, has denounced "defamatory remarks" and is considering legal action.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Patricia Glaser, an attorney representing Schmidt, called the lawsuit “yet another desperate and destructive effort to publish false and defamatory statements to escape accountability from an existing arbitration over a business dispute.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

He wants a full retraction of the Panorama documentary, an apology for the "false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements" made about him in it, and appropriate compensation "for the harm caused".

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

She also claims $34 million in reputational harm, citing 65 million “impressions of the defamatory statements.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Whatever there is defamatory that is said about Lucretia concerns the years before this marriage while she was living at Rome up to the age of twenty-three.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.