libel
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Archer resigned his party post and sued the Star for libel.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Former Coronation Street actor Qasim Akhtar is to receive "substantial" damages from the Sun's publisher, to settle a High Court libel claim.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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
One newspaper denounced “The Playboy of the Western World” as an “unmitigated, prolonged libel upon Irish peasant men and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
But as I had feared, Miss Kenton had read of the unsuccessful libel action, and inevitably, took the opportunity to probe me a little.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
How do I help our Christian friends understand that the Jewish people still face blood libels today?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
"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
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
Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are back in court to determine whether Heard libeled her ex-husband in 2018 when she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Store owners Allyn Gibson and his son, David Gibson, sued Oberlin College in November 2017 claiming they had been libeled by the school and their business had been harmed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
The founders of Alfa Bank, a major Russian financial institution, are suing Fusion GPS, claiming the firm libeled them.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2021
Now let us glance at the means adopted to get rid of this our breath, this breath of which our words are made, libeled as poisonous.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
The dead can’t be libelled, but they can have their privacy invaded.
From Nature ● May 1, 2018
Do you think you've been libelled and want to sue?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
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
The council went to court in California after three councillors and an official complained they were libelled in a blog called "Mr Monkey".
From BBC ● May 30, 2011
So that Lucinda, reviewing the libelled countenances of her companions, breathed silent thanks to whatever gods there were for their gift of a complexion transparent and immaculate.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
The burden is still on Palin to prove that Bennet is guilty of libeling her.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022
And who knows who’s responsible for an unnecessary portrayal of media ethics that strains credulity and verges on libeling the fourth estate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
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
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
In 2010, it paid five-figure damages to Sheryl Gascoigne for libelling her over her relationship with her former husband.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2011
A little more and he must institute proceedings against it for libelling himself.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
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