Sentences with phrase «filed libel suits»
Laski filed a libel suit against the Conservative Daily Express newspaper.
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The Honorable Minister of Mines and Steel Development and Former Ekiti State governor, Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has filed a libel suit worth N3billion against a member of Ekiti House of Assembly, Dr Samuel Omotoso and Special Assistant on New Media and Public Communications to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr Lere Olayinka.
On Sunday, Servick reported «that Sarkar has filed a libel suit in a Wayne County circuit court against several «John Does» behind the comments he considers defamatory.»
But Weaver also filed a libel suit centered on the assertions that he was an unqualified and corrupt researcher.
That quip incensed the thin - skinned Mann into filing a libel suit against Ball in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Canada.
Not exact matches
The $ 45 million libel suit former state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs filed against two opponents of a camp he wants to build in the Hamptons has been dismissed.
No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.
As to why the proceedings were filed in Texas rather than in the libel - suit - friendly United Kingdom, they said that «any action brought against the BMJ and Mr. Deer in London would have been immediately vulnerable to being struck out as an abuse of process.»
In other news, a private art dealer has filed a libel and slander suit against actress Claire Forlani for allegedly falsely claiming that he sold her a fake photographic print and had sold other fakes to other customers, according to Courthouse News.
«Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph's data.
Again, fairly or not, filing a law suit for libel is not good for one's public image.
National Review is asking for money to defend itself against a libel law suit filed by Professor Michael Mann for defaming him by accusing him of academic fraud.
Following the advice of one commenter, who suggested the lawyer sue RPK «for libel or whatever,» Shafee also filed a defamation suit (RPK's second).
When plaintiffs use that fact to file a suit abroad that might not fly in the U.S., legal experts refer to this type of forum shopping as libel tourism.
«But with 25 judges suing for libel in 2005 alone — nearly 10 percent of all libel suits filed nationwide — that form of judicial restraint is fading, raising questions about the role, and the ethics, of judges and whether they have a right to be as litigious as everyone else.»
Earlier this week, Steelback Brewery president Frank D'Angelo filed a $ 2 - million libel suit against Ottawa - based blogger Neate Sager for making what he says are disparaging comments about him.