libel
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The painter sued him for libel in a case that proved a Pyrrhic victory, leaving the plaintiff bankrupt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
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
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
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
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
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
He looked about the room less blankly; then by degrees fashioned his visage into the sickliest grin that ever libeled all smiling.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
"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
Do you think you've been libelled and want to sue?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
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
They have, nevertheless, been shamefully libelled by history.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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
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
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
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
Teodora Ricci, primed by him and parroting his words, went about libelling men and women of the highest rank, whom she had never seen.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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