libel
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Also as a result of her piece, she was slapped with a one-million-dollar libel suit, subpoenaed as a witness in a liquor laws case against the Playboy Club, and received “obscene and threatening” calls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
In 2014, it was reported that he had loaned David Hunt £1m, after a failed libel action against the Sunday Times left the crime boss with an £800,000 legal bill.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The case type is described as "Media and Communication -- Part 7 Claim -- Defamation -- libel and slander".
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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
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
How do I help our Christian friends understand that the Jewish people still face blood libels today?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 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
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
I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on 'The View' this morning.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 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
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
The wantonly libeled men had now an opportunity of revenging themselves upon the libeler, for he could not obtain his certificate without their signature, and without that he could not again commence business.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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
There was a lot written afterwards about how Deliverance libelled mountain people.
From The Guardian ● May 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
You will perceive that Austria, who by the way, has been shamefully libelled by your press; you will perceive, Albert, that— Prince.
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
Dr. Jayne was bent on libelling sceptics, and, deeming it safer to libel the poorer ones, he tempered his valor with a convenient amount of discretion.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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