Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...District Court, Central District of California, recently dismissed a libel suit against Apple Computer brought by astronomer Carl Sagan. The judge, Lourdes G. Baird, wrote...
...embellished resume in 1982 race for governor, claiming he attended Harvard; lost ensuing libel suit against The Globe
...controversial lawsuit considered a precursor of possible applications of libel law in electronic journalism was settled early this week, and Netheads used to a free-flowing exchange of information are bracing for a chill. Brock N. Meeks, a Virginia journalist and the best-known electronic chronicler of happenings on the Internet, has agreed to pay Ohio direct marketer Benjamin D. Suarez $64 in court costs -- and to notify Suarez at least 48 hours before Meeks pens any stories about the businessman. Suarez had launched the lawsuit on March 22 after Meeks wrote in his Internet newsletter, Cyberwire Dispatch, that...
...Marge Schott might have appreciated, such as Radio Shack's putting out a video game with a swastika in it, or an American Airlines ground crew's ordering a change of pillows after a gay-rights group exited the aircraft. Once in a while, companies apologize to avoid a libel suit, as nbc did after it rigged a crash test so a General Motors pickup truck would be sure to explode...
Lakian filed a libel suit against The Globe. A 1985 trial cleared the newspaper of the charges, as a Suffolk County jury ruled that the information in the article was factually correct...