libel
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He was found to have lied in libel action he had brought against the Daily Star newspaper, in which he was awarded £500,000 in damages.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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 New York Times has said libel action threatened against it by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an article alleging sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees by Israeli security services is "without merit".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Some said it was a scar left behind by the Damascus Affair, the blood libel that had driven his Harari ancestors from the city for good.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
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
At the start of the correspondence Adams had felt deep resentment toward Jefferson for the libels he had sponsored during the Adams presidency.
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
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
Former engineer says Tesla forced her out and then libeled her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Some of these terrors were landscapes, some libeled the sea, some were ostensible portraits, all were crimes.
From The American Claimant by Mark Twain
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
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
Do you think you've been libelled and want to sue?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
There are those who say that De Zafra had no daughter, and that he has been libelled in this matter.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
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
The general laws against sedition and libelling are at present as strong as they possibly can be made.
From Essays by David Hume
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