libel
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The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
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
One newspaper denounced “The Playboy of the Western World” as an “unmitigated, prolonged libel upon Irish peasant men and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
After many nights without sleep, we have given the original letter to our lawyer, who is instigating a libel suit for $500,000.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
How do I help our Christian friends understand that the Jewish people still face blood libels today?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
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
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
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
Former engineer says Tesla forced her out and then libeled her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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.
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
There was a lot written afterwards about how Deliverance libelled mountain people.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
South Tyneside 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 29, 2011
The person who invented razors libelled Nature, and added a fresh misery to the days of man.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
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
"He is the same Major Stapylton that a rascally press is now libelling and calumniating," said Barrington, hotly.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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