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“It is very sad that Pro Publica would seek to defame these public servants,” DHS added.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2025

It contends that county officials went out of their way to defame Baldwin and their pursuit of criminal charges deprived the actor-producer of his civil rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Last year, she filed suit against the church, seeking to end what she said were the “mob-style tactics” it had used to harass and defame her.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

After being asked to rule on the "natural and ordinary" meaning of the posts, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled on Friday that 11 of the posts could defame Mr Vine, who works for the BBC.

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

The films often had the opposite effect: Despite the mountains of evidence, many Hitler Youth told themselves that the films were exaggerated, if not invented by the Allies as propaganda intended to defame the Nazis.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

A Hong Kong arts hub cancelled the revival of an LGBTQ-themed play hours before tickets went on sale on Saturday, the cast said, after complaints that it "defames" the Chinese city.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

“The kind of speech that defames parents who have lost their children in a massacre is maybe the kind of speech you do want to deter. You do want to chill that speech,” Solomon said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2022

If she fails to do so or defames the singer, “Britney will be forced to consider and take all appropriate legal action.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

Two days later she wrote in the Wall Street Journal: "Ava DuVernay's miniseries wrongly portrays them as totally innocent - and defames me in the process."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2019

“It’s slanderous. It defames my good name. It’s a shameful way for a member of the Arcanum to behave.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The lawyer said the arrests happened now to prevent the brothers from having their day in court in an upcoming civil case they filed against a woman they claim defamed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

While Trump was found to have defamed and sexually abused Carroll, the jury rejected her claim of rape as defined in New York's penal code.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll," said Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The ad did not mention Sullivan by name but he said he was defamed by the ad’s criticism of the police.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I am dying now, alone in Paris, far from my beloved country; unjustly degraded, dishonoured and defamed.

From By Wit of Woman by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

In her first lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he insulted her and denied raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Chaves has had strained ties with local media, whom he accuses of defaming him.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Heard trial, where Heard was found liable for defaming Depp.

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll in 2023, ordering him to pay $5 million in damages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis