libel
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“In fact, the legal threat is much greater in the U.K. because the libel laws are tougher in the U.K. So there was no fear around putting it out in the U.S.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
In 1964, a unanimous Supreme Court said the 1st Amendment’s protection for the freedom of speech and the press limited state libel verdicts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The court filings show Prince Harry as a defendant alongside Mark Dyer, another former trustee of the charity, in a claim listed as "defamation - libel and slander".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
The case type is described as "Media and Communication -- Part 7 Claim -- Defamation -- libel and slander".
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
After many nights without sleep, we have given the original letter to our lawyer, who is instigating a libel suit for $500,000.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
What’s needed is a pragmatic and courageous paradigm shift, one that begins with naming and recognizing the contemporary libels used to demonize Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
Heard’s lawyers, who have filed their own countersuit against Depp, say nothing in the article libels him.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
"Far from increasing a public figure’s burden in a defamation action, the common law deemed libels against public figures to be, if anything, more serious and injurious than ordinary libels," Thomas wrote.
From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2019
Adams’s Federalists, he writes, “struck at enemies at home with laws allowing the president to deport aliens he deemed dangerous and the federal courts to prosecute libels on the federal government.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
In effect, he had no role whatsoever in promoting Callender’s libels against Adams.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on 'The View' this morning.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023
Harry claims the article was “fundamentally inaccurate” and the newspaper libeled him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements about his case challenging the government.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Russian Orthodox priest can sue the people he claims libeled him and tarnished his reputation in that faith community.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Former engineer says Tesla forced her out and then libeled her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Its very name was libeled coming from HER lips.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
However the Court of Appeal dismissed Mr Fox's bid to overturn the finding that he had libelled Mr Blake and Mr Seymour.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
The dead can’t be libelled, but they can have their privacy invaded.
From Nature ● May 1, 2018
There was a lot written afterwards about how Deliverance libelled mountain people.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
The Crown requires to lead evidence from both witnesses in relation to what they saw or heard on the day libelled.
From BBC ● May 17, 2012
And you libelled Buck and Bright by suggesting——" "I went to town, but not behind my bullocks.
From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.
Claiming that she ruined his reputation and career, Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for allegedly libeling him in a 2018 op-ed she wrote that was published in the Washington Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
The burden is still on Palin to prove that Bennet is guilty of libeling her.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022
Last month, she sued two Portuguese news outlets for allegedly libeling a New Jersey man by tying him to a far-right Portuguese political party.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
He then boldly read those words to Congress and millions of people, defaming & libeling me.” — tweets on Sept. 28.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
Burr was there because Hamilton had been libeling him throughout their crisscrossing careers in public life.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
In 1992, some of the subjects of “Boys of Zinc,” along with an organization representing the mothers of soldiers killed in the war, sued Alexievich for libelling the Soviet military.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
I feel it’s happening already, that the people who say, ‘He’s lying, he’s plagiarising, he’s libelling us’, will end up having more importance than my own research, my own attempts to investigate how things work.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2015
Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images It seems that , found guilty of libelling Lord McAlpine, is a Twitter martyr in some quarters.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
Her second marriage ended in divorce within a year, and she had to settle out of court with her first husband's family over accusations that she was libelling them in her act.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
Your libelling of my father ruined his reputation in Denton.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Marlowe, Amy Bell
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