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He was also found to have perjured himself on oath during the libel trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

A libel case against former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been thrown out at the Court of Appeal.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

“It’s outrageous that this has been printed. There should be rules . . .” “Can’t libel the dead,” he says.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

In response, Meshi-Zahav wrote a letter saying “these libels are baseless and appear more as gossip and closing of accounts against me.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 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

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

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 next day, the jury delivered its verdict, also rejecting Ms. Palin’s claim that The Times had libeled her in a 2017 editorial that erroneously linked her political rhetoric to a mass shooting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Harry rubbed the libeled proboscis, pawed at his mustache and fidgeted in his chair.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

"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

Sally Bercow settled her case with Lord McAlpine after being found to have libelled him on Twitter.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2013

The 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 30, 2011

They libelled Luther almost as freely as they libelled the English king.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

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

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

For this he was accused of treason, insult to the emperor, and libelling Bismarck, and in his absence condemned to five years’ penal servitude.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various