libel

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

He has been questioned in court before about his alleged IRA past - at the Ballymurphy inquest in Belfast in 2019 and during a libel case against the BBC in Dublin last year.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 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

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

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

Jefferson regretted to inform Adams that the story was untrue; he had not compiled a collection of the libels against himself.

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

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

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

Mr. Steele was also sued by Russian oligarch bankers The same judge in the Gubarev trial ruled he libeled them by alleging they bribed Mr. Putin by delivering large amounts of cash in the 1990s.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2020

They were commissioned ships of General Miramon, and were seized and libeled; yet they were released.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

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

"Scott was detained and interviewed at that time, however, due to a lack of corroboration, no charges were able to be libelled."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2018

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

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 O'Rell, Max

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

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

You never cease libelling that unfortunate woman from morning to night.

From The Making of a Soul by Rhodes, Kathlyn