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He was also found to have perjured himself on oath during the libel trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

He was found to have lied in libel action he had brought against the Daily Star newspaper, in which he was awarded £500,000 in damages.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

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

Then, if there were any other violations by Darrach, such as libel or invasion of privacy, a stronger suit could be brought.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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

At the start of the correspondence Adams had felt deep resentment toward Jefferson for the libels he had sponsored during the Adams presidency.

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

Harry claims that the newspaper libeled him when it suggested that the prince lied in his initial public statements about the suit against the government.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

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

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

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

I am aware how her atrocious book has libelled me.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

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

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

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

It picks out certain characteristics of human nature, generalizes from them and neglects the others, thereby libelling mankind.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau