Word: slandered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Absolutely not! I think she should have the right to sue for libel or slander - whichever applies in each case - because her name will be ruined before the trial even starts. This is trying the victim; we are supposed to try the accused. Cathy Dubre Florida...
When Ann Coulter published Slander last year, she didn't just score a surprise No. 1 best seller; she also discovered an entire new audience hungry for her notoriously sharp-tongued, unabashedly right-wing rhetoric. Now she's back with Treason (Crown Forum; 355 pages), and as TIME's Lev Grossman discovered, she has in no way mellowed with...
...apparent reason, participants begin hurling insults at me. The insults cease when I threaten to slander anyone who steps out of line...
...Fair Trade success is not to slander companies for their bad habits (like Starbucks, the only major specialty coffee buyer that won’t certify that five percent of its beans are Fair Trade), but to encourage them to offer more Fair Trade products. If Fair Trade were on brew every time I opened my cup, I would drink it. Regular Fair Trade purchases and suggestion box comments will do the trick, because rather than a movement of noise-making, this is a movement of expressing consumer interest—the companies are there, after all, to meet consumer...
...SENTENCED. LI LAN, 47, peasant farmer, to one year in prison for "slander"; in Lanshan, Hunan province, China. Li led a drive to impeach a local police official after her pregnant daughter was killed in a battle between two village clans. She collected more than 1,000 signatures and thumbprints from people saying the police had not done enough to investigate. She was arrested in 2001 shortly after TIME wrote about her efforts...