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

Former England footballer and pundit Eni Aluko has been awarded more than £300,000 damages and legal costs after suing Joey Barton for libel over social media posts.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

In August, Clarke lost his libel case against the Guardian, after he sued the newspaper's publisher.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

“If you mean libel, I’d say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle,” advised Jo, laughing.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

Harry claims the article was “fundamentally inaccurate” and the newspaper libeled him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements about his case challenging the government.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

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

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

Dime literature, with its yellow covers and sensational pictures of stage robberies and the like, has always libeled the American cowboy to a most outrageous extent.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by Cox, James

Jewell filed lawsuits against many of the publications and networks who he claimed had libelled him.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019

The dead can’t be libelled, but they can have their privacy invaded.

From Nature ● May 1, 2018

Do you realise you've now libelled two people in the space of five minutes?

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017

The Crown requires to lead evidence from both witnesses in relation to what they saw or heard on the day libelled.

From BBC ● May 17, 2012

The Liver.—The liver is an organ frequently libelled for the delinquencies of other organs, and regarded as a common source of ill.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

And while libeling your neighbor once might have required some extra effort — printing up flyers, say, or renting a billboard — now it’s as easy as grabbing your phone in an angry moment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 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

J. Almon in 1765, for publishing a pamphlet libelling the court of king’s bench.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various