libel

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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

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 in 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Lu has filed libel and defamation suits in South Africa, Australia, the U.K. and other countries against some of his critics, including Longwe, the internet-service provider executive in Malawi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Smart Shirts Ltd, a Hong Kong supplier of garments with customers in the UK, brought a claim for libel, alleging it had been defamed as its name was included.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

In his instructions to Van Ness, who had become his designated representative in the exchange, Burr explained that the Cooper letter was merely the most recent libel against him by Hamilton.

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