Word: libels
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When TIME's Asian edition published an investigative story in 1999 demonstrating how Indonesian leader Suharto and his children had enriched themselves during his 32-year rule, the former dictator sued the magazine for libel. He asked for a remarkable sum of money - $27 billion - and he lost. The Central Jakarta District Court rejected his suit in 2000, a decision that was subsequently upheld by an intermediate appellate court and widely viewed as a victory for press freedom in the country...
...using steroids but has denied knowing that they were performance-enhancing drugs. Right. According to Game of Shadows, a Bonds exposé, the slugger went on frequent steroid binges. No one has disproved these allegations, and if they are untrue, where's his sense of outrage? Where's his libel suit? "This record is unfortunate because it's pretty badly tainted," says former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent. "[Hank] Aaron is not going to go watch Bonds break it. I think that's the message for the rest...
...crazy twenty-something billionaires think of next, student life is only getting more transparent. There’s no such thing as a purely on-campus issue anymore, now that online discussion threads like Harvard’s BoredatLamont or Brown’s Daily Jolt have elevated anonymous libel to a fully searchable art form. Every time a kid loses an internship because an employer found annotated bong-rip pics on a MySpace page, students clamor that their privacy has been invaded. At IvyGate, we deal with fallout all the time. But what are bloggers and journalists supposed...
Tired of "fictional articles about my private life," Hugh Grant won libel damages from a London tabloid publisher. But wags seized on the baked beans he allegedly hurled at a shutterbug the same week. Says blogsite SWANKY BEAST: "Maybe they were going bad and he was just going to throw them out anyway." SCORE...
...contentious cartoons satirized Chancellor Palou’s friendship with Puebla State Governor Mario MarĂn, who has been at the center of controversy for a taped telephone conversation leaked to the public in which he helps plot the arrest of a journalist on trumped-up libel charges. MarĂn has denied that it is his voice on the tape.Palou invited MarĂn to speak at the university, prompting student protest. In the cartoon, MarĂn and Palou are playing poker with pigs and dogs, while Palou calls MarĂn’s speech...