libel
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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
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
The case type is described as "Media and Communication -- Part 7 Claim -- Defamation -- libel and slander".
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
In August, Clarke lost his libel case against the Guardian, after he sued the newspaper's publisher.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
In his instructions to Van Ness, who had become his designated representative in the exchange, Burr explained that the Cooper letter was merely the most recent libel against him by Hamilton.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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