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Also as a result of her piece, she was slapped with a one-million-dollar libel suit, subpoenaed as a witness in a liquor laws case against the Playboy Club, and received “obscene and threatening” calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

“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

The case type is described as "Media and Communication -- Part 7 Claim -- Defamation -- libel and slander".

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

“It’s outrageous that this has been printed. There should be rules . . .” “Can’t libel the dead,” he says.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Until we learn to recognize its libels, we will continue to fight yesterday’s hatred while losing to today’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

In response, Meshi-Zahav wrote a letter saying “these libels are baseless and appear more as gossip and closing of accounts against me.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 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

Jefferson did not retract his libels, but he made an exception for Banneker by allowing him to participate in surveying the District of Columbia.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

In effect, he had no role whatsoever in promoting Callender’s libels against Adams.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Patel’s defamation suit accuses The Atlantic of “actual malice,” a legal test that needs to be met for public officials to successfully prove they’ve been libeled.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

It prompted FUNAI’s rank-and-file to strike, claiming that the agency had libeled Pereira and demanding its president be fired.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Former engineer says Tesla forced her out and then libeled her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

You have grossly libeled my two clients in their private life.

From Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

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

South Tyneside 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 29, 2011

She is present at the first meal, and declares to her neighbours that things at sea are not so bad as some people pretend, and the Atlantic is too often libelled.

From Rambles in Womanland by Max O'Rell

Judge Karen Steyn on Friday cleared Coleen Rooney of libeling Rebekah Vardy when she alleged that Vardy had leaked her private social media posts to the tabloid press.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

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

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

From this date he devoted increasing attention to political affairs, and in 1835 was prosecuted for libelling the magistrates of Halifax.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various